[Popular Culture and Philosophy 24] • Bullshit and Philosophy · Guaranteed to Get Perfect Results Every Time by Reisch, George A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy® Title Page On Bullshitmania I - To Shoot the Bull? Chapter 1 - On Letting It Slide

Tolerable Bullshit Intolerable Bullshit Bullshit and Self-Deception Blameless Bullshit Bullshit and Truth

Chapter 2 - A Defense of Common Sense

The Truth Matters “What Exactly Do You Mean?” Let’s Stop Bullshitting Ourselves

Chapter 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

Chapter 4 - Bullshit and the Foibles of the Human Mind, or: What the Masters of ...

Some Cognitive Foibles of the Human Mind Reclaiming the Public Square

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 Chapter 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

Chapter 9 - The Unity of Bullshit

No Bullshit, Please, We’re Austrian A Little Carnap in Everyone The Unity of Bullshit

Chapter 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?

Chapter 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 Chapter 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

Chapter 13 - Political Bullshit and the Stoic Story of Self

How to Analyze Bullshit Stories Shape Our Feelings Bullshit Around the Globe

Chapter 14 - Bullshit at the Interface of Science and Policy: Global Warming, ...

Bullshit of the Isolated Fact Bullshit of Universal Standards Combatting the Two Kinds of Bullshit

Chapter 15 - Rhetoric Is Not Bullshit

The Problem (and Politics) of Rhetoric The Truth about Postmodernism Rhetoric and Bullshit

Chapter 16 - Just Bullshit

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