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Ignorance Unmasked : Essays in the New Science of Agnotology.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Proctor, Robert N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- We live in an age of ignorance.This book offers a guide to how we got here--and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology--the study of ignorance--can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know?.
- Contents:
- Agnotology, 30 years in the making / Robert N. Proctor
- How the most important fact of global warming has been obscured / Benjamin Franta
- Preventing unwanted births can help mitigate climate change-while enlarging human liberties / Londa Schiebinger and Robert N. Proctor
- AI-fueled ignorance, confusion, and profit / Hany Farid
- On data loss and disappearance in digital societies / Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
- Law against knowledge : anti-epistemology / Peter Galison.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4396-4
- OCLC:
- 1534190315
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