In this wide-ranging conversation, Marc Applebaum and Scott Churchill explore one of the most contested questions in phenomenological psychology and qualitative research: the supposed divide between “descriptive” and “interpretive” phenomenology. Drawing on the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Amedeo Giorgi, Max van Manen and others, they challenge the common assumption that description and interpretation

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Here is a link to my 2010 contribution to the festschrift  celebrating Amedeo Giorgi’s career in phenomenological psychology. I pose the question: why should the scientific status of our work be a compelling issue for the next generation of qualitative psychological researchers?  I explore the criteria for science proposed by Giorgi, and discuss van Manen’s

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