Husserl on Cartesian Evidence: A Textual and Phenomenological Reappraisal
Abstract Following Descartes, Husserl assigns a pivotal epistemological, methodological, and ethical role to evidence within the framework of his radical rationalism. At the same time, however, he repeatedly criticizes Descartes’ theory of evidence, on two principal counts. First, he rejects what he takes to be Descart...