In this opening conversation, Marc Applebaum and Scott Churchill introduce the philosophical and psychological foundations of existential phenomenological research, centered on Churchill’s book Essentials of Existential Phenomenological Research. The discussion explores how phenomenology emerged within psychology through the influence of thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Sartre, and Dilthey, while also

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Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly’s introductory essay in Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 10(2) “On History” begins: “The question of history—its inherent rational, intentional, teleological, eschatological development—has, at least since Hegel, constituted a central focus of philosophical questioning and scholarship. Indeed, contemporary philosophy persistently returns to the necessity of questioning history and the

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