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Reminds me of a good book I read in my ethics classes: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122946 https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-

• a_humean 10y ago
  Yep, its one of the best essays I read during my undergrad, and in the era of Trump's never ending bullshit generation it has never been a more relevant a topic for study. 16 page PDF of the original article: https://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/bullshit/pdf/on-bullshit.pdf https://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/bullshit/pdf/on-bullshit.pdf And Cohen's "Deeper into Bullshit": http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/robert.tierney/phil1301-6/bullshit/g.a.-cohen-deeper-into-bullshit/view http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/robert.tierney/phil1301-6/b... edit: now that the site is back up, I can see both are part of the week 1 syllabus!
• FabHK 10y ago
  Not surprisingly, that's also one of Calling bullshit's sources: http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html#Introduction http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html#Introduction (Funny little story, btw: The NYT reviewed that book, without being able to ever mention its title or, well, subject :-) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/books/between-truth-and-lies-an-unprintable-ubiquity.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/books/between-truth-and-li...