Understanding ignorance : the surprising impact of what we don't know /
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Author / Creator: | DeNicola, Daniel R., author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017] |
Description: | xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11324767 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- I. Images of Ignorance
- 1. The Impact of Ignorance
- Public Ignorance
- A Culture of Ignorance
- Knowledge over Ignorance
- Understanding Ignorance
- The Study of Ignorance
- 2. Conceiving Ignorance
- Negative Concepts
- Paradox
- The Language of Ignorance
- Ways of Knowing and Not Knowing
- Metaphors of Ignorance
- II. Ignorance as Place
- 3. Dwelling in Ignorance
- Ignorance as Hell or Heaven
- In Plato's Cave
- Recognizing Ignorance
- A Basic Typology from Rumsfeld to Zizek
- The Vagaries of Knowing and Not Knowing
- Introspection and Agnosognosia
- Skepticism
- 4. Innocence and Ignorance
- The Garden of Eden
- The Cave and the Garden
- The Concept of Innocence
- Learning and Loss
- Epistemic Community
- Places of Ignorance as Thought Experiments
- III. Ignorance as Boundary
- 5. Mapping Our Ignorance
- Boundaries, Borders, and Maps
- Mapping Professional Ignorance
- Natural and Constructed Boundaries
- Locating the Boundary of the Known
- Borderlands and Public Ignorance
- 6. Constructed Ignorance
- Rational Nescience
- Strategic Ignorance
- Willful Ignorance
- Privacy and Secrecy
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Constructing Ignorance Inadvertently
- 7. The Ethics of Ignorance
- The Ethics of Belief
- From Possibility to Moral Necessity
- Epistemic Rights
- Epistemic Obligations
- Ignorance, Action, and Responsibility
- Epistemic Injustice and Ignorance as Privilege
- 8. Virtues and Vices of Ignorance
- The Moral Assessment of Learning
- Curiosity
- Epistemic Restraint
- Discretion
- Trust
- Intellectual Humility
- Modesty as a Virtue of Ignorance
- The Virtuously Ignorant Schoolmaster
- Epistemic Achievement
- IV. Ignorance as Limit
- 9. The Limits of the Knowable
- Temporality
- Biological Limits
- Conceptual Limits
- The Limits of Science and Mathematics
- The End of Knowledge
- Omniscience
- Arguments from Ignorance
- 10. Managing Ignorance
- Responding to the Unknown
- Coping with Ignorance
- Transformations in the Dark
- Unpredictability and Commitment
- Chance
- From Possibility to Probability
- The Chance of Rain
- Other Intellectual Tools
- V. Ignorance as Horizon
- 11. The Horizon of Ignorance
- Epistemic Luck
- How Learning Creates Ignorance
- Freedom, Creativity, and Ignorance
- Ignorance and the Possible
- Wonder and the Shepherd of Possibilities
- Ever More: A Conclusion
- Epilogue: Ignorance and Epistemology
- Epistemology: Context and Content
- Beyond Propositional Knowledge
- Negation and Complexity
- Bivalency and Scalar Gradience
- Discovery and Justification
- Individual Knowers and Epistemic Communities
- Epistemic Value
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index