A Reverie on Mark Spencer's Essay (2021) "The Many Phenomenological Reductions" (Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Ti, #18)

Mark K. Spencer publishes an article in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (volume XX, 2021). The full title is "The Many Phenomenological Reductions and Catholic Metaphysical Anti-Reductionism".
There are as many types of phenomenology as phenomenologists. Or, so it seems. But, according to Spencer, they have one feature in common. They all follow Husserl in attempting to experience the noumenon, the thing itself. In doing so, they swim against the tide of science. Scientists foc...