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:: Harry G. Frankfurt : on Bullshit ::

Frankfurt on bullshit. "How would our culture change without BS in it?" Franfurt: "It would be a lot quiter... Hm. I don't know ...

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On bullshit
67 pages
On bullshit

This is the work of an extraordinarily acute, attentive, and versatile philosopher who has succeeded in addressing an audience comprised of both other ...

Bullshit and philosophy, guaranteed to get perfect results every time
272 pages
Bullshit and philosophy, guaranteed to get perfect results every time

What this book does, instead, is offer discussions, interpretations, and criticisms related to Frankfurt's essay and other philosophical work on bullshit . ...

Contours of agency, essays on themes from Harry Frankfurt
361 pages
Contours of agency, essays on themes from Harry Frankfurt

Harry Frankfurt Harry Frankfurt's essay "On Bullshit"1 is a pioneering and brilliant discussion of a widespread but largely unexamined cultural phenomenon. ...

The Enlightened Bracketologist, The Final Four of Everything
102 pages
The Enlightened Bracketologist, The Final Four of Everything

On Bullshit Which is more valuable: a book that explains why there's so much ... But White's charming essay evolved into a prophecy that had readers shaking ...

Cultures of Lying
378 pages
Cultures of Lying

Harry Frankfurt has shown in his famous essay On Bullshit that, whereas lying is always concerned with the question of truthfulness, ...

Material Ethics of Value, Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann
253 pages
Material Ethics of Value, Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann

8.3.2 Truth and Truthfulness; Reliability and Fidelity Some years ago, the Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt had an essay entitled On Bullshit ...

Over the hill, you pick up speed, reflections on aging (for anyone who happens to)
144 pages
Over the hill, you pick up speed, reflections on aging (for anyone who happens to)

It was a thoughtful essay examining the difference between bullshit (which he related to humbug) and lying in our moral culture. Widely read by scholars, ...

Seeing Fictions in Film, The Epistemology of Movies
240 pages
Seeing Fictions in Film, The Epistemology of Movies

At the beginning of his famous essay, “On Bullshit,” Harry Frankfurt says the following: “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is ...

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Preface: Ive debated doing this post for a long while. Today I bite the bullet. Part of my job is introducing you to valuable lessons and interesting people you might not find otherwise. Interesting takes many forms. Keep that in mind, and keep an open mind, as you read on.


I rolled over in bed to grab my cell phone. This time, I didnt mind being woken up. The text message read:
You hit the list. I...
(109 diggs) Photo Essay: Bob Dylan's Real Moments jaybol In the book, photographer Weinstein writes of his relationship with Dylan: "Bob and I were friends long before we worked together. We hung out and understood each other. When there was something to say we would talk, when there wasn't we were silent. We were similar in that way, no bullshit."
(16 diggs) DJs, Piracy, and Bullshit knots this is a short essay on the hypocrisy of the RIAA's position on DJ mix tapes and music trading..
(1 diggs) We Don't Love Them Hoez - Sociology Meets Rap Music kinggps A college student at Stanford wrote/bullshitted an essay using Rap songs to illustrate the sexual double standards and subjugation of women in the modern hook up culture. Half serious, half joke, this is a pretty good read that implicitly warns against taking things like sociology too seriously.

Dear Brain,

Any way brain, really, we need to get to work on that essay. I have an essay to write and you are being very uncooperative. Neither does most of the hippie-dippie bullshit you entertain because you don't want the world to lose it's mysticism....

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Wafflebaffle

Trying to read up on the presentation that I'm doing on feminism and film on Tuesday, while at the same time write something on the photography essay and try to figure out what the hell I'm going to do with the project that I'm supposed to hang on... By the end of next week I will have done my presentation, hopefully finished the essay, danced with the English National Ballet(. Spent the rest of the day doing some much needed digging at the pile of assignments, projects and presentation that I have to do before going home(can't wait. The theme is 'home' and every idea I have seem to be usd and misused to death already....

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Untitled

lecture,notes,essay-I-have-no-clue-how-to-write-so-I-just-make-shit-up,lecture,notes,test,repeat. literally, the only things that have changed coming here are I don't have to clean the bathroom or cook anymore. M seems to have made some great friends at her school, how does she do it. I don't understand. god, everything everyone told me was complete bullshit, I mean, I kind of already knew, that but still. most of the time I don't care,  but when I go on facebook it sucks....

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