Bullshit Questions

Analysis 83 (2):299-304 (2023)
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This paper argues that questions can be bullshit. First it explores some shallowly interrogative ways in which that can happen. Then it shows how questions can also be bullshit in a way that’s more deeply interrogative.

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10.1093/analys/anad002

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On Bullshit.Harry G. Frankfurt - 1986 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
On Bullshit.Harry Frankfurt - 1986 - Philosophical Quarterly 56 (223):300-301.
Liar!Jonathan Webber - 2013 - Analysis 73 (4):651-659.
Bullshitting, Lying, and Indifference toward Truth.Don Fallis & Andreas Stokke - 2017 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 4:277-309.
Implicating Questions.David Braun - 2011 - Mind and Language 26 (5):574-595.

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