Review by Choice Review
To philosophers used to unending analyses of knowledge as the core topic of epistemology, DeNicola's Understanding Ignorance will come as a breath of fresh air. It is a lively, wide-ranging, yet systematic study of the interrelationships between knowledge and ignorance and the agents involved with both. DeNicola (Gettysburg College) shows that ignorance consists of more than an absence of knowledge, that there are many different kinds of ignorance, that it affects societies as well as individuals, and that its management comes in myriad forms beyond merely overcoming it through new knowledge. The coverage is masterly; no single subtopic dominates the book, yet none seems underdeveloped or out of place. Detailed footnotes, index, and bibliography will please scholars, but nonspecialists--including nonphilosophers--will also find the work of interest. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --Scott E. Forschler, independent scholar
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Review by Choice Review