Descriptions examines current trends in phenomenology.
It begins by reflecting on phenomenological description itself, then takes phenomenology into such areas as time, science and the arts, the social, and into the universities. Ranging from the development of theory by such well-known philosophers as Maurice Natanson and Robert Sokolowski, this collection addresses the topics of pregnant subjectivity, nostalgia, the ethical function of architecture, computer science, and academi c freedom. Don Ihde is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.