Ignorance has been a marginal and neglected topic in the social sciences, as is the case in
cognate disciplines. Indeed, most of what mainstream social science says about ignorance …

As humans and as researchers, there is more that we do not know than we do know.
Analysis and the decisions eventually based on them are significantly shaped by this fact …

Until recently, ignorance and uncertainty were neglected topics in the human sciences and
even in philosophy. Even now, they do not share center stage with knowledge in those …

Ignorance is a neglected topic in the study of social life. Most conventional accounts of this
phenomenon treat it implicitly and assign it marginal or even outright negative status …

Ignorance is an inherently broad and comprehensive notion, which, ironically, can refer to
both the worst enemy of science and knowledge-related efforts and, in its Socratic form, their …

Ignorance in all its complexity is fast becoming a legitimate object of study that is gaining
increasing traction within the social sciences. This chapter certainly draws inspiration from …

This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the
epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and …

The study of ignorance does not land neatly in any one discipline. It splatters across
disciplines without any respect for disciplinary boundaries. From astrophysics to zoology …

The purpose of this book is to examine the role of ignorance and the agents that complicate
learning. This book contains 14 chapters, end notes and references. Chapter 1 focuses on …

Western history of thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought. Yet
people often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use …