Understanding ignorance: the surprising impact of what we don't know [First MIT paperback edition] 9780262036443, 0262036444, 9780262536035, 026253603X

Table of contents :
I. Images of ignorance : The impact of ignorance : Public ignorance
A culture of ignorance
Knowledge over ignorance
Understanding ignorance
The study of ignorance --
Conceiving ignorance : Negative concepts
Paradox
The language of ignorance
Ways of knowing and not knowing
Metaphors of ignorance --
II. Ignorance as place : Dwelling in ignorance : Ignorance as hell or heaven
In Plato's cave
Recognizing ignorance
A basic typology from Rumsfield to Žižek
The vagaries of knowing and not knowing
Introspection and agnosognosia
Skepticism --
Innocence and ignorance : The Garden of Eden
The cave and the garden
The concept of innocence
Learning and loss
Epistemic community
Places of ignorance as thought experiments --
III. Ignorance as boundary : Mapping our ignorance : Boundaries, borders, and maps
Mapping professional ignorance
Natural and constructed boundaries
Locating the boundary of the known
Borderlands and public ignorance --
Constructed ignorance : Rational nescience
Strategic ignorance
Willful ignorance
Privacy and secrecy
Forbidden knowledge
Constructing ignorance inadvertently --
The ethics of ignorance : The ethics of belief
From possibility to moral necessity
Epistemic rights
Epistemic obligations
Ignorance, action, and responsibility
Epistemic injustice and ignorance as privilege --
Virtues and vices of ignorance : The moral assessment of learning
Curiosity
Epistemic restraint
Discretion
Trust
Intellectual humility
Modesty as a virtue of ignorance
The virtuously ignorant schoolmaster
Epistemic achievement --
IV. Ignorance as limit : The limits of the knowable : Temporality
Biological limits
Conceptual limits
The limits of science and mathematics
The end of knowledge
Omniscience
Arguments from ignorance --
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 : The horizon of ignorance : Epistemic luck
How learning creates ignorance
Freedom, creativity, and ignorance
Ignorance and the possible
Wonder and the shepherd of possibility
Ever more: a conclusion --
Epilogue : Ignorance and epistemology : Epistemology: context and content
Beyond propositional knowledge
Negation and complexity
Bivalency and scalar gradience
Discovery and justification
Individual knowers and epistemic communities
Epistemic value
Conclusion.

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