Essence is interpreted as sense (E. Husserl, Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy, paragraphs 3 and 4).

Edmund Husserl, a student of Franz Brentano, articulated his phenomenological philosophy in a way, that could be thought as a basis of Dilthey's attempt.

After about 1928 Weyl had apparently decided that mathematical intuitionism was not compatible with his enthusiasm for the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl, as he had apparently earlier thought.

Some of these new approaches, often influenced by phenomenological and post-modernist philosophy, include situated cognition, distributed cognition, dynamicism, embodied cognition.

Max Scheler extended the phenomenological method to include a reduction of the scientific method too, thus questioning the idea of Husserl that phenomenological philosophy should be pursued as a rigorous science.

Recherches Husserliennes was a Belgian French-speaking journal devoted to Husserlian-style phenomenological philosophy.

Schutz has been close to Edmund Husserl and was deeply embedded in his phenomenological philosophy.

While historically its use in English was restricted to discussions of the political history of Rome, the beginning of phenomenological philosophy in the 20th century expanded the use of the word.

In "Ideas for a pure phenomenology and a phenomenological philosophy" (1913) Husserl dealt thoroughly with the "era" or "phenomenological reduction."

He did a postgraduate diploma in philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and there encountered the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, which appealed to him.