Nobody Cares: The Philosophy of Indifference
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Through three figures—the hustler, the sucker, and the nobody-cares agent—Nobody Cares reveals the hidden logic of modern behavior. Using tools of game theory, this book shows how indifference can be rational. Through epistemic logic, it explains how everyone can know—and still not act. Drawing on attention economics, it reveals why caring has become costly.
We live in the age of indifference. Yet the real problem is not that nobody cares. It is that everyone acts as if nobody else does.
"This is a book for anyone troubled by the gap between what we know and what we do — and, for those whose task it is to teach others to care, an illuminating formal analysis."
—Sonja Smets, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
"Nobody Cares: The Philosophy of Indifference is a provocative and essential book. It is required reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary society and find solutions to what ails Western democracies."
—Duncan Pritchard, University of California, Irvine
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About the author
Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at The University of Copenhagen. He was the founder and director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. A prolific writer he has been awarded several prizes for his research among them The Elite Research Prize by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, The Roskilde Festival Elite Research Prize, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award and The Rosenkjær Prize. He was Editor-in-Chief of Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science between 2005-2015.
Hendricks has over the years appeared in a wide variety of media outlets including The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, BBC, Le Monde, DIE ZEIT, Welt, TEDx, The Open Mind:Channel Thirteen, Wired, The Conversation, VICE, Quartz, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Danish Broadcasting Company, News POLSAT Poland, Tom Hartman Show, Pete Dominick Show, The David Packman Show, The Forbidden Speech podcast, SiriusXM, Ideasphere – National Public Radio, Sputnik-News Radio UK, SRF Tagesschau CH, Neue Zuricher Zeitung CH, CNBC AFRICA, New Business Ethipoia, CPH:DOX, TRT World Turkey, ARD Radio Germany , TV2 News Denmark.
