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PHIL 217.00 Reason in Context: Limitations and Possibilities 6 credits
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In this course we’ll read works from Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty, all of which touch upon questions stemming from the realization that our reflection on significant human questions is often (perhaps always) embedded within a larger set of cultural or personal theoretical commitments. Such embeddedness suggests our reflection cannot achieve the standard of objectivity characteristic of a traditional ideal of rationality. Is this realization to be welcomed insofar as it weakens traditional dogmatic claims to truth and the associated implication that certain views or frameworks are superior to others? Or, in spite of the unmooring of the philosophical tradition from set criteria, do we still find ourselves committed to some ordering of rank and, if so, how do we make sense of this?
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