Phenomenology is a major philosophical movement based on the methodically controlled description of conscious experience, as uncovered at first introspectively. This course focuses on (1) the origin of the movement in common epistemological problems arising in philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and the natural sciences, (2) the development of the movement's method, and (3) a close study of some influential phenomenologists, including Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Contemporary connections to the neuroscientific study of consciousness are also explored.