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Ignorance - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover)
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Ignorance - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover)
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Ignorance: A Philosophical Study provides an in-depth exploration
of ignorance in its many dimensions. Philosophers have long
examined epistemological concepts like belief, knowledge, and
understanding, but they have paid less attention to ignorance.
Socrates famously claimed to be ignorant about a wide variety of
issues, such as physical matters and ethics, but did not study
ignorance itself. It was not until the 1960's and 70's that
ignorance itself became a topic of concern in philosophy, when the
fields of agnotology, philosophy of race, and feminist philosophy
were born. These fields, however, focused on specific properties of
ignorance, rather than ignorance itself. Rik Peels provides a
full-on epistemology of ignorance, and then applies that
epistemology to a wide variety of philosophical issues. Among the
questions he addresses are: What kinds of ignorance are there? What
is it to be ignorant of a proposition? What varieties of
propositional ignorance are there? What is group ignorance? What is
it for ignorance to come in degrees? What is strategic ignorance?
What is "white ignorance"? What does ignorance excuse? When is
ignorance culpable? Can ignorance be a proper aim in education?
Peels presents a wide-angle exploration that is relevant to the
interests of philosophers across epistemology, ethics, philosophy
of language, philosophy of science, and other disciplines.
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