Understanding ignorance: the surprising impact of what we don't know
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[2017]
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 250 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780262036443 |
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Preface xi
I Images of Ignorance 1
1 The Impact of Ignorance 3
Public Ignorance 5
A Culture of Ignorance 7
Knowledge over Ignorance 9
Understanding Ignorance 10
The Study of Ignorance 11
2 Conceiving Ignorance 15
Negative Concepts 1 6
Paradox 18
The Language of Ignorance 21
Ways of Knowing and Not Knowing 23
Metaphors of Ignorance 27
II Ignorance as Place 29
3 Dwelling in Ignorance 31
Ignorance as Hell or Heaven 32
In Plato s Cave 33
Recognizing Ignorance 34
A Basic Typology from Rumsfeld to Žižek
The Vagaries of Knowing and Not Knowing
Introspection and Agnosognosia 43
Skepticism 44
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4 Innocence and Ignorance 47
The Garden of Eden 48
The Cave and the Garden 50
The Concept of Innocence 52
Learning and Loss 55
Epistemic Community 57
Places of Ignorance as Thought Experiments 59
III Ignorance as Boundary 63
5 Mapping Our Ignorance 65
Boundaries, Borders, and Maps 66
Mapping Professional Ignorance 68
Natural and Constructed Boundaries 70
Locating the Boundary of the Known 71
Borderlands and Public Ignorance 74
6 Constructed Ignorance 79
Rational Nescience 80
Strategic ignorance 82
Willful Ignorance 84
Privacy and Secrecy 88
Forbidden Knowledge 91
Constructing Ignorance Inadvertently 94
7 The Ethics of Ignorance 97
The Ethics of Belief 98
From Possibility to Moral Necessity 100
Epistemic Rights 103
Epistemic Obligations 107
Ignorance, Action, and Responsibility 111
Epistemic Injustice and Ignorance as Privilege 112
8 Virtues and Vices of Ignorance 115
The Moral Assessment of Learning 116
Curiosity 118
Epistemic Restraint 120
Discretion 122
Trust 123
Intellectual Humility 125
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Modesty as a Virtue of Ignorance 126
The Virtuously Ignorant Schoolmaster 129
Epistemic Achievement 1 33
IV Ignorance as Limit 135
9 The Limits of the Knowable 137
Temporality 139
Biological Limits 142
Conceptual Limits 144
The Limits of Science and Mathematics 147
The End of Knowledge 149
Omniscience 151
Arguments from Ignorance 153
10 Managing Ignorance 157
Responding to the Unknown 158
Coping with Ignorance 160
Transformations in the Dark 162
Unpredictability and Commitment 163
Chance 164
From Possibility to Probability 167
The Chance of Rain 1 72
Other Intellectual Tools 1 75
V Ignorance as Horizon 177
11 The Horizon of Ignorance 1 79
Epistemic Luck 180
How Learning Creates Ignorance 183
Freedom, Creativity, and Ignorance 186
Ignorance and the Possible 188
Wonder and the Shepherd of Possibilities 189
Ever More: A Conclusion 192
Epilogue: Ignorance and Epistemology 195
Epistemology: Context and Content 195
Beyond Propositional Knowledge 197
Negation and Complexity 199
Bivalency and Scalar Gradience 202
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Discovery and Justification 203
Individual Knowers and Epistemic Communities
Epistemic Value 206
Conclusion 208
Notes 209
Bibliography 233
Index 245
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Understanding Ignorance
THE SURPRISING IMPACT OF WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
Daniel R. DeNicola
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, “Pm not a
scientist.” Angry citizens object to a proposed state
motto because it is in Latin, and “This is America,
not Mexico or Latin America.” Lack of experience,
not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and
repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm
belief. Ignorance about American government and
history is so alarming that the ideal of an informed
citizenry полу seems quaint. Conspiracy theories and
false knowledge thrive. This may be the Information
Age, but we do not seem to be well informed. In this
book, philosopher Daniel DeNicola explores ignorance —
its abundance, its endurance, and its consequences.
DeNicola aims to understand ignorance, which
seems at first paradoxical. How can the unknown
become known—and still be unknown? But he argues
that ignorance is more than a lack or a void, and
that it has dynamic and complex interactions with
knowledge. Taking a broadly philosophical approach,
DeNicola examines many forms of ignorance, using
the metaphors of ignorance as place, boundary, limit,
and horizon. He treats willful ignorance and describes
the culture in which ignorance becomes an ideological
stance. He discusses the ethics of ignorance, including
the right not to know, considers the supposed virtues
of ignorance, and concludes that there are situations in
which ignorance is morally good.
Ignorance is neither pure nor simple. It is both an
accusation and a defense (“You are ignorant!” “Yes,
but I didn’t know!”). Its practical effects range from the
inconsequential to the momentous. It is a scourge, but,
DeNicola argues daringly, it may also be a refuge, a
value, and even an accompaniment to virtue.
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