The following text describes Phenomenology. Phenomenology, founded by Edmund Husserl, is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Unlike science, which seeks to explain the world as an objective set of causes and effects, phenomenology focuses on 'intentionality'—the idea that consciousness is always conscious *of* something. It attempts to describe phenomena (things as they appear) from the first-person point of view, suspending judgment about the objective reality of the external world (a process called 'epoché').