Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Phenomenology and Externalism -- Transcendentalism and Realism -- Conceptual Frameworks -- Metaphysical Issues -- Truth and the Search for It -- Cognitive and Other Attitudes -- 2. Husserl -- Introduction -- Intention and Fulfilment -- The Transcendental Turn -- Epistemology of Perception -- Knowledge of Essences -- The Problem of History -- 3. Heidegger -- Introduction -- The Place of the Transcendental -- The Ontological Difference -- The Cognitive Attitude -- Subject and Predicate -- Essences -- The Question of Truth -- The Open Space -- Untruth and Concealment -- Summary -- 4. Merleau-Ponty -- Introduction -- Sensation and Perception -- Perception and Meaning -- Nature and Scope of Reflection -- Perception and the Body -- Appearance and Reality -- External Reality -- Objectification and Predication -- Perceptual Knowledge and Truth -- Essences -- Metaphysics and Epistemology -- Merleau-Ponty's Idealism -- Summary -- 5. Conclusions -- Transcendentalism and Realism Revisited -- Transcendentalism in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.