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Popular Culture and Philosophy #118
Scott Adams and Philosophy
As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different his Dilbert cartoons, his meditations on the philosophy of Dilbert, his works on how to achieve success in business and all other areas of life, his two remarkable books on religion, and now his controversial work on political persuasion.
Adams’s two most recent best-sellers are How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Kind of the Story of My Life (2014) and Win Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter (2017). Adams predicted Donald Trump’s election victory (on August 13th 2016) and has explained then and more recently how Trump operates as a Master Persuader, using “weapons-grade� persuasive techniques to defeat his opponents and often to stay several moves ahead of them.
Adams has provocative ideas in many areas, for example his outrageous claim that 30 percent of the population have absolutely no sense of humor, and take their cue from conventional opinion in deciding whether something is a joke, since they have no way of deciding this for themselves.
In Scott Adams and Philosophy , an elite cadre of people who think for a living put Scott Adams’s ideas under scrutiny. Every aspect of Adams’s fascinating and infuriating system of ideas is explained and tested.
Among the key
Adams’s two most recent best-sellers are How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Kind of the Story of My Life (2014) and Win Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter (2017). Adams predicted Donald Trump’s election victory (on August 13th 2016) and has explained then and more recently how Trump operates as a Master Persuader, using “weapons-grade� persuasive techniques to defeat his opponents and often to stay several moves ahead of them.
Adams has provocative ideas in many areas, for example his outrageous claim that 30 percent of the population have absolutely no sense of humor, and take their cue from conventional opinion in deciding whether something is a joke, since they have no way of deciding this for themselves.
In Scott Adams and Philosophy , an elite cadre of people who think for a living put Scott Adams’s ideas under scrutiny. Every aspect of Adams’s fascinating and infuriating system of ideas is explained and tested.
Among the key
256 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2018
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December 12, 2018
Strengths:
* Dilbert as Haiku and other forms of elevated condensed philosophy
* The best arguments against "the universe is a simulation" thesis I've seen to date
* Good overall explanations of various philosophies and logical errors using Dilbert as an example
Weaknesses:
* not enough time on Adams' atheism, two chapters too many of personal attacks on Adams
* not enough time on Adams' extraordinary 2016 election predictions, too much nitpicking of said predictions
Disclaimer: I did receive a copy of the book from the publisher for review.
* Dilbert as Haiku and other forms of elevated condensed philosophy
* The best arguments against "the universe is a simulation" thesis I've seen to date
* Good overall explanations of various philosophies and logical errors using Dilbert as an example
Weaknesses:
* not enough time on Adams' atheism, two chapters too many of personal attacks on Adams
* not enough time on Adams' extraordinary 2016 election predictions, too much nitpicking of said predictions
Disclaimer: I did receive a copy of the book from the publisher for review.
Displaying 1 of 1 review
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