Agnotology is the study of culturally and socially constructed ignorance. This paper seeks to
marry the emerging field of agnotology with the institutions and mechanisms of politics by …

Abstract The United States' current 'Age of Intellectual Darkness' has produced a society
engaged in the widespread rejection of verifiable facts and scientific data resulting in fear …

AGNOTOLOGY Page 1 AGNOTOLOGY The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance Edited by
Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger Stanford University Press Stanford, California Page 2 …

The study of ignorance, or agnotology, has many similarities with studies of absence. This
paper outlines a framework for agnotology which is shaped by interdisciplinary studies of …

Current political developments in established liberal democracies in both Europe and North
America have fundamentally called into question the normative relations between truth …

The social construction of knowledge is often taken as a truism, yet the simultaneous
production of ignorance during knowledge creation processes has been paradoxically …

Agnotology is supposed to represent the downside of epistemology. The concept, as
introduced by Robert Proctor (2008, 27–28) in 1992, denotes the active creation and …

Agnotology is the study of ignorance—how it is culturally created or condoned, and the
purposes it serves in a society. Stanford University professor Robert N. Proctor, a historian of …

Peter Galison: Robert, you and I have been talking about agnotology—the structure of
impressed ignorance—for a long time now, or certainly since the time we were graduate …

During the corona pandemic, politicians have been forced to make urgent decisions under
pressure while balancing between challenging options: protecting citizens' health or causing …