Full Idea
The goal of an objective phenomenology would be to describe, at least in part, the subjective character of experiences in a form comprehensible to beings incapable of having those experiences.
Gist of Idea
Can we describe our experiences to zombies?
Source
Thomas Nagel (What is it like to be a bat? [1974], p.179)
Book Reference
Nagel,Thomas: 'Mortal Questions' [CUP 1981], p.179
A Reaction
This seems a bizarre expectation. We can already explain visual experience to the blind up to a point, but no one is dreaming of an "objective phenomenology" which will give blind people total understanding, just by reading about it in braille.