Adjective[edit] sophomoric â(comparative more sophomoric, superlative most sophomoric) 1  of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore.  conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
Phenomenology (psychology) Phenomenology is the study of subjective experience. It is an approach to psychological subject matter that has its roots in the philosophical work of Edmund Husserl. Early phenomenologists such as Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty conducted philosophical investigations of consciousness in the early 20th century.
(December 2009). Existential phenomenology is a philosophical current inspired by Martin Heidegger 's 1927 work Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) and influenced by the existential work of Soeren SÃ¸ren kierkegaard and the phenomenological work Of Edmund. husserlesides Heidegger, other existential phenomenologists were Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Samuel Todes.