Our Vision and Our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief
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Bullshit”, as Harry Frankfurt writes in his recent book “On Bullshit”, is a communication that pretends to be genuinely informative but really is not. The person who talks bullshit, Frankfurt holds, is unconcerned with whether what he says is true, but is very concerned with how he is thought of by the listener. In this paper, I discuss Frankfurt’s theory of bullshit, making specific reference to the requirement for deceptive intent on the part of the bullshitter and to whether bullshitting must involve conscious dishonesty. I hold that the really disturbing feature of much bullshit is that people often “believe their own bullshit” and that this requires making room for believing one’s own bullshit as a form of self-deception. Some choice examples of bullshit are nosed and it is asked whether Frankfurt really has it in for postmodernism.
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