Bullshit and philosophy : guaranteed to get perfect results every time / edited by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardcastle, Gary L.

Reisch, George A., 1962-

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 24.

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Popular interest in bullshit ? and its near relative, truthiness ? is at an all-time high, but the subject has a rich philosophical history, with Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Kant all weighing in on the matter. Here, contemporary philosophers reflect on bullshit from epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, historical, and political points of view. Tackling questions including what is bullshit, what does it do, is it a passing fad, and can it ever be eliminated, the book is a guide and resource for the many who find bullshit worth pondering.

Contents:

Title Page; Popular Culture and Philosophy®; On Bullshitmania; I - To Shoot the Bull?; 1 - On Letting It Slide; Tolerable Bullshit; Intolerable Bullshit; Bullshit and Self-Deception; Blameless Bullshit; Bullshit and Truth; 2 - A Defense of Common Sense; The Truth Matters; "What Exactly Do You Mean?"; Let's Stop Bullshitting Ourselves; 3 - The Pragmatics of Bullshit, Intelligently Designed; The Example of Intelligent Design; A Definition of Bullshit-New and Improved!; The Truth in Bullshit; The Truth about Semantics; Solving Frankfurt's Puzzle, or, Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Bullshit

The Case for Purism about Bullshit4 - Bullshit and the Foibles of the Human Mind, or: What the Masters of the ...; Some Cognitive Foibles of the Human Mind; Reclaiming the Public Square; 5 - Bullshit and Personality; Does the Bullshitter Pay Attention to the Truth?; Two Modes of Bullshit; Bullshit and Personality Disorders; Some Examples of Bullshit in Personality Disorders; Perfect Partners: Bullshit and Distorted Social Perceptions; The Threat Posed by Bullshit; 6 - Performing Bullshit and the Post-Sincere Condition; Mission Statement

Shitty Attitudes: On the Use and Misuse of Bullshit in LifeBullshit as a Condition of Life; The World as Will to Bullshit; Overcoming Overwhelming Bullshit; 7 - The Importance of Being Earnest: A Pragmatic Approach to Bullshitting; Two Tauroscatological Schools; The Epistemic Imperative; The Problem with Bullshitting; So Why Bullshit?; II - The Bull by the Horns; 8 - Deeper into Bullshit; 1 Without the Shit of the Bull; 2 Two Species of Bullshit; 3 Bullshit and Lying; 4 Bullshit as Unclarifiable Unclarity; 5 Bullshit as Product and Bullshit as Process; 9 - The Unity of Bullshit

No Bullshit, Please, We're AustrianA Little Carnap in Everyone; The Unity of Bullshit; 10 - Raising the Tone: Definition, Bullshit, and the Definition of Bullshit; Semantic Negligence; A Caricature History of Semantics; Persuasive Definition; Broadening the Analysis; Backfire; Good Definitions; Is Frankfurt's Definition of 'Bullshit' Itself PD?; 11 - Different Kinds and Aspects of Bullshit; Harry Frankfurt on Bullshit; A Different Take on Bullshit; A Different Kind of Bullshit; III - It's All Around Us; 12 - The Republic of Bullshit: On the Dumbing-Up of Democracy

Bullshitting and Lying in PoliticsThe Myth of the 'Well-Informed' Citizen; 'Dumbing-Up': Some Distortions of Democratic Equality; Philosophy versus Bullshit; 13 - Political Bullshit and the Stoic Story of Self; How to Analyze Bullshit; Stories Shape Our Feelings; Bullshit Around the Globe; 14 - Bullshit at the Interface of Science and Policy: Global Warming, Toxic ...; Bullshit of the Isolated Fact; Bullshit of Universal Standards; Combatting the Two Kinds of Bullshit; 15 - Rhetoric Is Not Bullshit; The Problem (and Politics) of Rhetoric; The Truth about Postmodernism; Rhetoric and Bullshit

16 - Just Bullshit

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-30101-6

9786613301017

0-8126-9784-7

OCLC:

756484310