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What you didn’t know about positivism

In this published version of the Terry lectures, delivered at Yale University last year, the novelist Marilynne Robinson argues that positivism, the belief that science is the only reliable means to truth, has adopted a “systematically reductionist” view of human … Continue reading

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Why bother?

As I wander on the internet, I come across lots of bullshit – I use the term in the philosophical sense of the world. Sometimes I wonder if I should leave a comment. Is it worth my time? Is it … Continue reading

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Harry G. Frankfurt: On Bullshit

See also Frankfourt, H.G.: On Bullshit.

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