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Media type:
Book
Title:
Ignorance
:
a philosophical study
Contains:
ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: We Need to Know More about IgnoranceIntroductionA Brief History of the Philosophical Study of IgnoranceThe Neglect of Ignorance in EpistemologyA New Approach to IgnoranceOverview of the BookPart 1 The Epistemology of Ignorance2. Kinds of IgnoranceIntroductionPropositional IgnoranceObjectual IgnorancePractical IgnoranceErotetic IgnoranceIgnorance and UnderstandingIgnorance and WisdomThe Nature of Ignorance and Its Contingent PropertiesA Rival View: El Kassar on IgnoranceConclusion3. The Nature of Propositional IgnoranceIntroductionThe Standard and New Views on IgnoranceArguments for the Standard ViewArguments for the New ViewIgnorance and the Duty to InquireThe Epistemic Badness of IgnoranceConclusion4. Varieties of Propositional IgnoranceIntroductionSix Varieties of IgnoranceFurther Varieties of Ignorance?Objections and RepliesFirst- and Second-Order IgnoranceDisentangling the Varieties of IgnoranceConclusion5. Group IgnoranceIntroductionTwo Cases: Fundamentalist and White IgnoranceExtrapolating from Group Belief?The Dynamic Account of Group IgnoranceObjections and RepliesConclusion6. Degrees of IgnoranceIntroductionWhat Are Degrees?Degrees of Propositional IgnoranceDegrees of Objectual IgnoranceDegrees of Practical IgnoranceDegrees of Group IgnoranceConclusionPart 2 Applying the Epistemology of Ignorance7. Strategic IgnoranceIntroductionA New Conception of Ignorance in Agnotology?The Standard and New Views on Strategic IgnoranceStrategic Ignorance as Group IgnoranceKinds of Strategic IgnoranceVarieties of Strategic IgnoranceDegrees of Strategic IgnoranceConclusion8. White IgnoranceIntroductionA New Conception of Ignorance in the Philosophy of Race?Kinds of White IgnoranceVarieties of White IgnoranceWhite Ignorance as Group IgnoranceDegrees of White IgnoranceConclusion9. Ignorance in EducationIntroductionPresenting DefeatersScaffoldingPromoting UnderstandingShowing That the Student Does Not KnowObjectual IgnorancePractical IgnoranceGroup IgnoranceConclusion10. Ignorance That ExcusesIntroductionExcusesIgnorance of What Excuses?Does Normative Ignorance Excuse as Well?Which Varieties of Ignorance Excuse?Group Ignorance as an ExcuseConclusion11. The Roots of Culpable IgnoranceIntroductionCulpabilityThe Influence ViewTwo Rival Views: Compatibilism and AttributionismThe Origination Thesis Influence and Culpable IgnoranceObjections and RepliesRamificationsConclusion12. Asserting IgnoranceIntroductionAsserting Objectual and Practical IgnoranceAsserting the Varieties of IgnoranceAsserting Unwarranted IgnoranceAsserting Ignorance That Issues from Duty ViolationAsserting Group IgnoranceInexpressible Ignorance and the Transparency ViewConclusionEpilogueReferencesIndex
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"a brief history of the study of ignorance. There is a lack of serious investigation into ignorance: apart from the apophatic tradition in the ancient world and the Middle Ages and the more recent fields of agnotology, philosophy of race, and feminist philosophy, ignorance itself has received little philosophical attention. It is then laid out how the field that one would expect to have studied ignorance in detail, namely, epistemology, has failed to do so. The chapter also explores why this could be the case. Subsequently, it is explained what is new about this book and how this fills the important gap in the study of ignorance: it develops and applies an epistemology of ignorance. Finally, it gives a brief overview of the chapters ahead"--
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 becamea 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 ignorancebe 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