Phenomenology of Human Understanding

The problem of human knowing has been foundational for the enterprise of philosophy since the time of Descartes. The great philosophers have offered different accounts of the power and limits of human knowing but no generally acceptable system has emerged. Contemporary writers have almost given up on this most intractable issue.

In this book, Brian Cronin suggests using the method of introspective description to identify the characteristics of the act of human understanding and knowing. Int...