Thursday, November 10, 2005
Shooting the bull
Princeton professor emeritus of philosophy Harry G. Frankfurt has written a book entitled, "On Bullshit." The Princeton University Press website is kind enough host a video interview with Dr. Frankfurt, where he steps in intriguing and philosophically slippery topics such as, "What is bullshit? [Dial-up]" (leave it to a philosopher to ignore the obvious answer) and "Can anything be done about bullshit? [Dial-up]". In any case, I find this to be highly ironic since much, if not most of philosophy is, in fact, bullsh*t.
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Phlisopher:
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1. A "scientist" who is bad at math.
2. A person who engages in pointless arguments with providing proof,
3. A person who tells a lot of bullsh*t.
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha
ReplyDeleteug chooses to remain silent concerning this topic
but luckily aliza is to the rescue
aliza is visiting ug at her college
aliza is sleeping over in ug's dorm room
anyway that's really funny
ug wants to know if the guy was serious about that book
aliza thinks it is improbable
anyway
this is a really long comment
just goes to prove that old saying:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between philosophy and science?
For science, you need 3 things: pencil, paper, and a trashcan.
For philosophy, you need 2 things...
I emailed, or should I say didn't email Professor Frankfort. The falsified, or should I say truthful copy of the letter is posted on my blog. If you can't figure it out or want the letter I actually sent him, just email me.
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