[Popular Culture and Philosophy 24] • Bullshit and Philosophy by Hardcastle, Gary L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy® Title Page 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 Bullshit

4 - 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 Life Bullshit 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 Austrian A 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 Politics The 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

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