Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by ak39 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:18AM
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No 10. sounds just like something Slavoj Zizek would say.
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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by FabHK on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:26AM
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I wonder whether there's research correlating low bullshit-sensitivity with endorsement of postmodern "thought".
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by drb91 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:58PM
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What area are you talking about? Postmodern means a lot of different things.
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by FabHK on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:40AM
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Incidentally, I wonder whether the translation from the Swedish original is somewhat deficient here, as it doesn't seem to be entirely grammatical.
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by mirimir on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:26PM
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I wonder about that too.
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by staticautomatic on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:50PM
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He's a rather big fan of Lacan, so that should already be setting off the bullshit alarms.
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by Fordec on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:29AM
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Or a random sentence generator. Or an unlocked phone in a pocket with autocomplete enabled
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by pjc50 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:36AM
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This reminds me of the tremendous and only slightly trolling "What is wrong with our thoughts" by philosopher David Stove: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html
(If you're finding it TLDR then at least skip to the list of numbered propositions in the middle)
Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by AlexCoventry on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:37AM
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This essay is incredibly ironic. Thousands of words to sneer at "fatally bad thought," based on nothing but bald assertions that it's flawed, pretence that we dear readers all agree and can see that it's flawed, and appeals to emotion via expressions of Stove's disgust at the intellectual corruption its flaws reflect.
A "nosology of thought" sounds like a fine research program, but a manifesto about it ought to at least give a few examples to show the criteria for helpful diagnostics.
I like the dialog with Muggeridge at the end, though.