A philosophic movement that originated around the turn of the century on the Continent (see Husserl's Cartesian Meditations for example). This movement -- like Russell, G. E. Moore, and the analytic movement generally -- insisted on divorcing philosophy from (empirical) psychology, thus avoiding something labelled psychologism. The phenomenologists insisted that philosophers could directly study the pure phenomenon of thought (intentional objects) by a bracketing technique which avoided any commitments about empirical psychology.