Routledge international handbook of ignorance studies /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. |
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| Description: | xvii, 408 pages : illustration ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Routledge international handbook series Routledge international handbook series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11062644 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Historical treatments of ignorance in philosophy, literature and the human sciences
- Ignorance and investigation / Jens Haas and Katja Maria Vogt
- Learned ignorance: the apophatic tradition of cultivating the virtue of unknowing / William Franke
- Literary ignorance / Andrew Bennett
- Popper, ignorance, and the emptiness of fallibilism / Shterna Friedman
- From Descartes to Rumsfeld: the rise and decline of ignorance-of-ignorance / Jerome Ravetz
- The anatomy of ignorance: diagnoses from literature / Devjani Roy and Richard Zeckhauser
- Part II: Registering the unknown: ignorance as methodology
- The production of forbidden knowledge / Joanna Kempner
- Ignorance and the epistemic choreography of method / Mike Michael
- Sharing the resources of ignorance / Stuart Firestein
- Expect the unexpected: experimental music, or the ignorance of sound design / Basile Zimmermann
- Purveyors of ignorance: journalists as agents in the social construction of scientific ignorance / S. Holly Stocking and Lisa W. Holstein
- Ignorance and the brain: are there distinct kinds of unknowns? / Michael Smithson and Helen Pushkarskaya
- Linguistics and ignorance / Nina Janich and Anne Simmerling
- Part III: Valuing and managing the unknown in science, technology and medicine
- Undone science and social movements: a review and typology / David J. Hess
- Science: for better or worse, a source of ignorance as well as knowledge / Janet A. Kourany
- Selective ignorance in environmental research / Kevin C. Elliott
- Lost in space: geographies of ignorance in science and technology studies / Scott Frickel and Abby Kinchy
- Ignorance and industry: argrichemicals and honey bee deaths / Daniel Lee Kleinman and Sainath Suryanarayanan
- Doubt, ignorance and trust: on the unwarranted fears raised by the doubt-mongers / Albert Ogien
- Decision-making under the condition of uncertainty and non-knowledge: the deliberative turn in genetic counselling / Alexander Bogner
- Fighting a losing battle? The right not to know and the dynamics of biomedical knowledge production / Peter Wehling.
- Part IV: Power and ignorance: oppression, emancipation and shifting subjectivities
- Global white ignorance / Charles W. Mills
- Intersubjective vulnerability, ignorance and the experience of radical surprises / Christian Kuhlicke
- Anthropological perspectives on ritual and religious ignorance / Liana Chua
- Criminal ignorance / Darren Thiel
- Targeting ignorance to change behavior / Deborah A. Prentice
- Rational ignorance / Ilya Somin
- Democracy and practices of ignorance / Lev Marder
- Part V: Ignorance in economic theory, risk management and security studies
- Governing by ignoring: the production and the function of the under-reporting of farm-workers' pesticide poisoning in French and Californian regulations / François Dedieu, Jean-Noël Jouzel and Giovanni Prete
- To know or not to know? A note on ignorance as a rhetorical resource in geoengineering debates / Steve Rayner
- Unfolding the map: making knowledge and ignorance mobilization dynamics visible in science evaluation and policymaking / Joanne Gaudet
- Ignorance is strength? Intelligence, security and national secrets / Brian Rappert and Brian Blmer
- Ignorance and the sociology of economics / Oliver Kessler
- Decision-theoretic approaches to non-knowledge in economics / Ekaterina Svetlova and Henk van Elst
- Organizational ignorance / Joanne Roberts
- Managing with ignorance: the new ideal / Allison Stewart
- Fictional reflections: taking it personally: medical ignorance / Ann Kerwin
- Afterword: ignorance studies: interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary.
