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How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance?: A Philosophical Study: Routledge Studies in Epistemology

Autor Nadja El Kassar
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This book addresses two questions that are highly relevant for epistemology and for society: What is ignorance and how should we rationally deal with it? It proposes a new way of thinking about ignorance based on contemporary and historical philosophical theories.
In the first part of the book, the author shows that epistemological definitions of ignorance are quite heterogeneous and often address different phenomena under the label "ignorance." She then develops an integrated conception of ignorance that recognizes doxastic, attitudinal, and structural constituents of ignorance. Based on this new conception, she carves out suggestions for dealing with ignorance from the history of philosophy that have largely been overlooked: virtue-theoretic approaches based on Aristotle and Socrates, consequentialist approaches derived from James, and deontological approaches based on Locke, Clifford, and Kant. None of these approaches individually provide a satisfying approach to the task of rationally dealing with ignorance, and so the author develops an alternative maxim-based answer that extends Kant’s maxims of the sensus communis to the issue of ignorance. The last part of the book applies this maxim-based answer to different contexts in medicine and democracies.
How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance? will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the social sciences.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032451213
ISBN-10: 1032451211
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Epistemology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Cuprins

1. Introduction  Part 1: What Is Ignorance?  2. The Framework I  3. Conceptions of Ignorance  4. Facts of Ignorance  5. Causes of Ignorance  Part 2: Rationally Dealing with Ignorance  6. The Framework II  7. Virtue-theoretical Answers  8. Consequentialist Answers  9. Deontological Answers  10. The Maxim-based Answer  Part 3: Applications  11. Ignorance in Democracies  12. Ignorance and Uncertainty in Medical Contexts  Outlook

Notă biografică

Nadja El Kassar is Professor of Philosophy, with a focus on theoretical philosophy, at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Her research interests include social and feminist epistemology, philosophy of perception, and philosophy of mind. Recently she has published articles on ignorance, epistemic injustice, and intellectual self-trust.

Descriere

This book addresses two questions that are highly relevant for epistemology and for society: What is ignorance and how should we rationally deal with it? It proposes a new way of thinking about ignorance based on contemporary and historical philosophical theories.