SYM-PHENOMENOLOGIZING - TALKING SHOP

In this essay I discuss the idea of deploying workshops in phenomenolo gy - i.e., teaching the discipline by practising it. I focus on the mo del proposed by Herbert Spiegelberg, the first person to give systemat ic attention to this idea and the first to institutionalize it over a period of several years. Drawing on my experience in several of the wo rkshops he led at Washington University, St. Louis, I detail the metho d he recommended in preparation for a workshop I then led at the inaug ural meeting of ''To the Things Themselves'' at the University of New Hampshire.