Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know
- ISBN-10
- 0262036444
- ISBN-13
- 9780262036443
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-18
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Daniel R. DeNicola
Description
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 -- Epistemology: Context and Content -- Epilogue: Ignorance and Epistemology -- Beyond Propositional Knowledge -- Negation and Complexity -- Bivalency and Scalar Gradience -- Discovery and Justification -- Individual Knowers and Epistemic Communities -- Epistemic Value -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 The Impact of Ignorance -- 2 Conceiving Ignorance -- 3 Dwelling in Ignorance -- 4 Innocence and Ignorance -- 5 Mapping Our Ignorance -- 6 Constructed Ignorance -- 7 The Ethics of Ignorance -- 8 Virtues and Vices of Ignorance -- 9 The Limits of the Knowable -- 10 Managing Ignorance -- 11 The Horizon of Ignorance -- Epilogue: Ignorance and Epistemology -- Bibliography -- Index
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