Philosophy 1301 Final Exam

Postmodernism is said to be skeptical of all of the following except...

• objectivity

• irony

• truth claims

• rationality

Which of the following was NOT one of the responses to life that Beauvoir rejects

• The Nihilist

• The Adventurer

• The Skeptic

• The Humorist

The response that denies subjectivity, value, and meaning and asserts only that there are physical objects

• The Cynic

• The Skeptic

• The Nihilist

• The Scientist

Beauvoir compares the 'serious' person to

• A child

• A priest

• A boss

• A bear

According to Beauvoir, the serious person

• Fully confronts the ambiguity of life

• Creates their own meaning in life

• Cares deeply for others

• Subordinates themselves to a higher purpose

T/F: Derrida accuses most of philosophy of logocentrism

• True

• False

Derrida advocated for treating all of culture as a...

• map of the world

• text

• prison

• tool

Rorty's ironist meets all of the following conditions except

• They don't claim to be closer to reality than others

• They realize that there is no escape from their own conceptualization

• They are skeptical of their own way of conceptualizing thte world

• They are politically liberal

The postmodernist who employs the genealogical method is

• Rorty

• Habermas

• Derrida

• Foucault

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a consequence of abandoning the 'two dogmas of empiricism'?

• No distinction between philosophy and science

• No distinction between common sense and science

• Progress in moral philosophy is impossible

• Pragmatism