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Phenomenology of Human Understanding (Paperback)
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Phenomenology of Human Understanding (Paperback)
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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. Introspection--far
from being private and unverifiable--can be public, communal, and
verifiable. If we can describe our dreams and our feelings, then,
we can describe our acts of understanding. Using concrete examples,
one can identify the activities involved--namely, questioning,
researching, getting an idea, expressing a concept, reflecting on
the evidence and inferring a conclusion. Each of these activities
can be described clearly and in great detail. If we perform these
activities well, we can understand and know both truth and value.
The text invites readers to verify each and every statement in
their own experience of understanding. This is a detailed and
verifiable account of human knowing: an extremely valuable
contribution to philosophy and a solution to the foundational
problem of knowing.
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