{"id":353,"date":"2016-11-21T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2017-01-01T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T16:35:35","slug":"g-a-cohens-commentary-on-harry-frankfurts-on-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/21\/g-a-cohens-commentary-on-harry-frankfurts-on-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"G. A. Cohen&#8217;s commentary on Harry Frankfurt&#8217;s &#8220;On Bullshit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G. A. Cohen, <em>Finding Oneself in the Other<\/em>, 2012: Chapter 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/cohen\/Cohen.pdf\">&#8220;Complete Bullshit.&#8221;<\/a> This chapter is a reprint of an article which appeared in Sarah Buss and Lee Overton, eds., <em>Contours of Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Harry Frankfurt<\/em>, 2002. In this festschrift, Frankfurt replied: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=XfQCYbt_cDYC&amp;pg=PA340&amp;lpg=PA340&amp;dq=frankfurt+reply+cohen&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=EgBvKUMowv&amp;sig=MDYzDi0yBTv9EqvqotInLIdullk&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiG44qHsKHRAhUe0IMKHdKxCzoQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&amp;q=frankfurt%20reply%20cohen&amp;f=false\">\u201cReply to G. A. Cohen.\u201d<\/a> In this piece, Cohen marks the important distinction between a bullshitter and bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>See also: William Lewis, <a href=\"http:\/\/crisiscritique.org\/ccnovember\/william.pdf\">&#8220;Is there less bullshit in <em>For Marx<\/em> <\/a>then in <em>Reading Capital<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. A. Cohen, Finding Oneself in the Other, 2012: Chapter 5: &#8220;Complete Bullshit.&#8221; This chapter is a reprint of an article which appeared in Sarah Buss and Lee Overton, eds., Contours of Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Harry Frankfurt, 2002. In this festschrift, Frankfurt replied: \u201cReply to G. A. Cohen.\u201d In this piece, Cohen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/21\/g-a-cohens-commentary-on-harry-frankfurts-on-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;G. A. Cohen&#8217;s commentary on Harry Frankfurt&#8217;s &#8220;On Bullshit&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definition-of-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}