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Husserl and foundationalism

John Drummond

pp. 235-252

Some might think perverse my suggestion in the title for this part of the work that Husserl is committed to realism and not to foundationalism. On the one hand, Husserl clearly identifies his own philosophy as a form of "transcendental idealism" (CM, §41), and on the other, Husserl clearly is committed to the discovery of an indubitable starting point upon which and a clear methodology by which philosophy can establish itself as a sure science of cognition. Husserl, then, certainly seems committed to both idealism and foundationalism.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1974-7_10

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Drummond, J. (1990). Husserl and foundationalism, in Husserlian intentionality and non-foundational realism, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp. 235-252.

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