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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
Bullshit as a Call to Open-Mindedness
Wittgenstein: Ultimate Bullshit Detector—or Bullshitter?
Bullshit as Deferred Epistemic Gratification
The Scientific Method as a Search for the Justice in Bullshit
Our Distinguished Panel of Incomparable Geniuses
Our Index, Exquisitely Crafted for Your Illumination
ALSO FROM OPEN COURT
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