Bullshit and Philosophy:
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edited by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch

2006

Contents

On Bullshitmania
GEORGE A. REISCH AND GARY L. HARDCASTLE

    I To Shoot the Bull? Rethinking and Responding to Bullshit

  1. On Letting It Slide
    SCOTT KIMBROUGH
  2. A Defense of Common Sense
    CONSUELO PRETI
  3. The Pragmatics of Bullshit, Intelligently Designed
    GEORGE A. REISCH
  4. Bullshit and the Foibles of the Human Mind, or: What the Masters of the Dark Arts Know
    KENNETH A. TAYLOR
  5. Bullshit and Personality
    SARA BERNAL
  6. Performing Bullshit and the Post-Sincere Condition
    ALAN RICHARDSON
  7. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Pragmatic Approach to Bullshitting
    CORNELIS DE WAAL

    II. The Bull by the Horns: Defining Bullshit

  8. Deeper into Bullshit
    G.A. COHEN
  9. The Unity of Bullshit
    GARY L. HARDCASTLE
  10. Raising the Tone: Definition, Bullshit, and the Definition of Bullshit
    ANDREW ABERDEIN
  11. Different Kinds and Aspects of Bullshit
    HANS MAES and KATRIEN SCHAUBROECK

    III. It's All Around Us: Bullshit in Politics, Science, Education, and the Law

  12. The Republic of Bullshit, Or: Were Plato, Strauss and Those Guys Right All Along?
    MARK EVANS
  13. Political Bullshit and the Stoic Story of Self
    VANESSA NEUMANN
  14. Bullshit at the Interface of Science and Policy: Global Warming, Toxic Substances, and Other Pesky Problems
    HEATHER DOUGLAS
  15. Rhetoric Is Not Bullshit
    DAVID J. TIETGE
  16. Just Bullshit
    STEVE FULLER

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