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Janet Kourany

Science and the Production of Ignorance

When the Quest for Knowledge Is Thwarted

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An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance—both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance, and much of the ignorance studied in this new area is produced by science. Whether an active or passive construct, intended or unintended, this ignorance is, in Proctor's words, made, maintained, and manipulated” by science. Th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Carrier, Martin
  • ISBN: 978-0-262-53821-3
  • EAN: 9780262538213
  • Produktnummer: 32792312
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 328 S.

Über den Autor


Janet Kourany is Associate Professor of Philosophy and concurrent Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame.Martin Carrier is Professor of Philosophy at Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

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