Routledge international handbook of ignorance studies / / edited by Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey.
"Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distri...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Routledge International Handbooks |
|---|---|
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge International Handbooks
|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Historical treatments of ignorance in philosophy, literature and the human sciences
- 2 Ignorance and investigation
- 3 Learned ignorance: The apophatic tradition of cultivating the virtue of unknowing
- 4 Literary ignorance
- 5 Popper, ignorance, and the emptiness of fallibilism
- 6 From Descartes to Rumsfeld: The rise and decline of ignorance-of-ignorance
- 7 The anatomy of ignorance: Diagnoses from literature
- PART II Registering the unknown: Ignorance as methodology
- 8 The production of forbidden knowledge
- 9 Ignorance and the epistemic choreography of method
- 10 Sharing the resources of ignorance
- 11 Expect the unexpected: Experimental music, or the ignorance of sound design
- 12 Purveyors of ignorance: Journalists as agents in the social construction of scientific ignorance
- 13 Ignorance and the brain: Are there distinct kinds of unknowns?
- 14 Linguistics and ignorance
- PART III Valuing and managing the unknown in science, technology and medicine
- 15 Undone science and social movements: A review and typology
- 16 Science: For better or worse, a source of ignorance as well as knowledge
- 17 Selective ignorance in environmental research
- 18 Lost in space: Geographies of ignorance in science and technology studies
- 19 Ignorance and industry: Agrichemicals and honey bee deaths
- 20 Doubt, ignorance and trust: On the unwarranted fears raised by the doubt-mongers
- 21 Decision-making under the condition of uncertainty and non-knowledge: The deliberative turn in genetic counselling
- 22 Fighting a losing battle? The right not to know and the dynamics of biomedical knowledge production
- PART IV Power and ignorance: Oppression, emancipation and shifting subjectivities
- 23 Global white ignorance
- 24 Intersubjective vulnerability, ignorance, and sexual violence
- 25 Vulnerability, ignorance and the experience of radical surprises
- 26 Anthropological perspectives on ritual and religious ignorance
- 27 Criminal ignorance
- 28 Targeting ignorance to change behavior
- 29 Rational ignorance
- 30 Democracy and practices of ignorance
- PART V Ignorance in economic theory, risk management and security studies 31 Governing by ignoring: The production and the function of the under-reporting of farm-workers" pesticide poisoning in French and Californian regulations
- 32 To know or not to know? A note on ignorance as a rhetorical resource in geoengineering debates
- 33 Unfolding the map: Making knowledge and ignorance mobilization dynamics visible in science evaluation and policymaking
- 34 Ignorance is strength? Intelligence, security and national secrets
- 35 Ignorance and the sociology of economics
- 36 Decision-theoretic approaches to non-knowledge in economics.