Table of Contents 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 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 Copyright Page Popular Culture and Philosophy® Series Editor: George A. Reisch VOLUME 1 Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing (2000) Edited by William Irwin VOLUME 2 The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer (2001) Edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skoble VOLUME 3 The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) Edited by William Irwin VOLUME 4 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (2003) Edited by James B. South VOLUME 5 The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All (2003) Edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson VOLUME 6 Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter’s Box (2004) Edited by Eric Bronson VOLUME 7 The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am (2004) Edited by Richard Greene and Peter Vernezze VOLUME 8 Woody Allen and Philosophy: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong? (2004) Edited by Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble VOLUME 9 Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts (2004) Edited by David Baggett and Shawn E. Klein VOLUME 10 Mel Gibson’s Passion and Philosophy: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy (2004) Edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia VOLUME 11 More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded (2005) Edited by William Irwin VOLUME 12 Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can