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1. Ignorance: How It Drives Science
by Professor Stuart Firestein
"Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of ... More
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2. Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
by Robert N Proctor (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor)
Agnotology--the study of how ignorance is produced and maintained--introduces a new and much-needed perspective for scholars across all fields of ... More
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3. Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery
by Jaakko Hintikka
Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also ... More
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4. Revisiting Discovery and Justification: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction
by Jutta Schickore (Editor), Friedrich Steinle (Editor)
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the ... More
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5. The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach
by Casey High (Editor), Ann H Kelly (Editor), Jonathan Mair (Editor)
"Documents the many relationships and practices that depend on the suspension of knowledge or the generation, deployment, or recognition of ignorance ... More
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6. A Defense of Ignorance: Its Value for Knowers and Roles in Feminist and Social Epistemologies
by Cynthia Townley
By exploring diverse and sometimes positive roles for ignorance, A Defense of Ignorance offers a revisionary approach to epistemology that challenges ... More
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7. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge
by Bill Vitek (Editor), Wes Jackson (Editor)
Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, along with the notion that environmental problems can be ... More
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9. American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness
by Robert Grudin
Robert Grudin is a lyrical philosopher. From "Time and the Art of Living" to "The Grace of Great Things" and "On Dialogue, " he has tackled the ... More
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10. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: A Friend of Virtue
by Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a ... More
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11. Narrative and Truth: An Ethical and Dynamic Paradigm for the Humanities
by Barry Emslie
Narrative explanations are preferred over non-narrative, axiomatically, in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. Firstly they ... More
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13. Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II
by Robert S Cohen (Editor), Babette E Babich (Editor)
Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, is the second volume of a collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, featuring essays addressing ... More
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14. Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination
by Bernard Phillips
Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to ... More
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15. Kant's Transcendental Deduction: An Analysis of Main Themes in His Critical Philosophy
by Robert Howell, R C Howell
The argument of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the Critique of Pure Reason is the deepest and most far-reaching in philosophy. In ... More
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16. Kant's Transcendental Deduction
by R.C. Howell
The argument of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the Critique of Pure Reason is the deepest and most far-reaching in philosophy. ... More
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17. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
by Sandra G Harding
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19. Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
by Alexander Zaitchik
Who is this guy and why are people listening? Forget Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity--Glenn Beck is the Right's new media darling and ... More
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20. The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos
by Neil Turok
A visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok. Every technology we rely on today was created ... More
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21. Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
by Wendell Berry
In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative ... More
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22. The tacit dimension.
by Michael Polanyi
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23. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
by Michael Polanyi
Originally published in 1958 this study discusses tacit knowledge and its influence in many fields from theology to artificial intelligence.
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24. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
by Sir Karl Raimund Popper
This classic remains one of Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge ... More
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25. Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind
by Paul M Churchland
A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in ... More
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