On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt

Cloth | 2005 | $9.95 / £6.50
80 pp. | 4 x 6

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Video interview with Harry G. Frankfurt

Clip 1. What brought you, as a professional philosopher, to write about bullshit? (1:41) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 2. What is your theory of bullshit? What is bullshit? (:39) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 3. Do you find bullshitters actually more reprehensible than liars? (1:01) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 4. Is it difficult for you as a philosopher to deal with behavior so indifferent to your values? (1:14) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 5. Does bullshit require a kind of creativity or imagination that simple falsehood doesn't? (1:00) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 6. Is there more bullshit today than, say, 100 years ago, or ever before? (1:10) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 7. Are more highly educated people more likely to engage in bullshit? (:52) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 8. Can you give us any salient examples of bullshit today that we might be familiar with? (1:33) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Clip 9. Can anything be done about bullshit, or is it just a universal human tendency? (1:08) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

Entire interview in one file (10:23) QuickTime: Dial-up | Broadband    WindowsMedia: Dial-up | Broadband

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