Popular Posts

  • Economists and empirical evidence
    I don't suppose that economists are less likely than any of the rest of us to make  daft pronouncements about empirical issues without a...
  • New College of the Humanities: what's the fuss about?
    The press is full of nasty stuff about Anthony Grayling and his associates, see here and here for some examples. Their crime is that they ...
  • Μολὼν λαβέ
    So the guys over at GBCS have finally  got around to responding,  in a piece titled ' On social class, anno 2014 '.   Obviously th...
  • Liber Niger Procuratorum
    I've been involved in the last couple of years, to a greater or lesser extent, in three investigations of student misconduct. All had on...
  • GBCS again...
    Oh dear, I'm turning into the sort of obsessive bore that people cross to the other side of the room to avoid... but indulge me one mor...
  • Bauman, plagiarism, blah, blah
    Another week, another plagiarism scandal. THE is reporting that one of Britain's favourite blah blah sociologists Zygmunt Bauman has...
  • Is sociology useless?
    Something I've been meaning to blog about for a while. The Guardian 's Aditya Chakrabortty has been putting the boot into  sociolog...
  • Writing a Master's Thesis
    It's that time of year when my MSc students are starting to seriously worry about choosing a dissertation topic. With that in mind here ...
  • Piketty footnote
    Looks like I just squeezed in my rather thin thoughts about the Piketty affair yesterday  before he delivered  his 10 page reply to Chris...
  • Another Howard Beale moment...
    I'm at a loss as to what to make of this conference strand. Well, not entirely. Here are a few thoughts: Why do research methods h...

Caveat Emptor

The opinions expressed on this page are mine alone. Any similarities to the views of my employer are completely coincidental.

Friday, 22 March 2013

Bullshit

In my previous post I allude to Harry G. Frankfurt's On Bullshit. Should you have a mind to, you can see him talk about the concept here and here.
Posted by Colin at 02:47

3 comments:

Leo said...

Are you aware of Jerry Cohen's response to Frankfurt, 'Deeper into Bullshit'? It's in his collection, Finding Oneself in the Other, under the title 'Complete Bullshit'. The second part, 'Why One Kind of Bullshit Flourishes in France' is amusing.

22 March 2013 at 11:14
Colin said...

Know it, read it, bought the T-shirt... well actually haven't bought the T-shirt but maybe there is a marketing opportunity there...

22 March 2013 at 11:36
Leo said...

Ok, well you've probably already seen these too, but on even the small chance you haven't, these videos of Cohen uploaded to YouTube by Nicholas Vrousalis are great: http://www.youtube.com/user/nvrousalis (esp. 'The German Idea of Freedom': http://youtu.be/ey-hYJM7B3I)

26 March 2013 at 06:29

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)