I’m impressed. Impressed especially with the lucidity and elegance of the writing in a particularly difficult and easily confusing area of philosophy. The book is well organized and the arguments proceed clearly and logically. There are many little reviews and summaries embedded in the text as well as brief abstracts of issues in chapters to follow. I like very much the development or expansion of the phenomenological view of perception and knowledge. Well done!

With the benign influence of Ernst Cassier and Emanual Kant, hovering in the background, Dr. Hardy takes the thoughtful reader to where Samuel Johnson, kicking a stone and saying, “Thus I refute Berkely,” left off. Seductively, brilliantly, and carefully, Dr. Hardy discusses the division between reality and subjective experience, but points out there is no such dichotomy in that in the first place such a division does not exist. Rather, according to Dr. Hardy, they subsist as the perceptual and conceptual ingredients of one’s phemenological world. Dr. Hardy’s thinking then goes considerably further with a complex and very thoughtful elaboration of how a consensually shared conceptual world develops despite and yet because of the infinite perspectives one has through every moment. This book requires a scrupulous concentration that will reward everyone interested in the psychology and philosophy of the mind. What makes the book a more pleasurable read is the scintillating and creative linguistic style where unexpected metaphorical word usages delightedly fall into place.