creators_name: Kotzee, Ben
creators_id: ben.kotzee@gmail.com
type: journalp
datestamp: 2007-11-13 01:05:32
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:59
metadata_visibility: show
title: Our Vision and our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief
ispublished: pub
subjects: SAJP-Post
full_text_status: public
abstract: “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. Some choice examples of bullshit are nosed and the question of whether Frankfurt really has it in for postmodernism is addressed.
date: 2007
date_type: published
publication: South African Journal of Philosophy
volume: 26
number: 2
pagerange: 164-175
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Kotzee, Ben  (2007) Our Vision and our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5802/1/Kotzee.pdf