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Dec 11, 2023 · Ignorance shields people from knowing how their actions harm others and makes them feel less like a bad person. Our findings hint at ways to combat willful ignorance.
Apr 27, 2018 · Human ignorance is inevitable. It is ignorance of our ignorance that concerns psychology professor David Dunning. We can call ignorance of our ignorance, invincible ignorance when normal feedback from an individual’s working environment does little to disabuse them of their lack of skills.
- ‘Ignoring’ as An Activity
- Fatal Consequences of Ignorance
- Ignorance and The Absence of Knowledge
People, organizations and governments can all partake in “ignoring” as an activity. When information isn’t sought out — in other words, ignored — it can offer motivation and excusesfor the perpetration of even the most harmful actions. For example, we continue to live through world events that suggest many Canadians are “ignoring” the harm they can...
Consider twice-impeached and disgraced former president Donald Trump. His administration’s politics invoked potentially moral dimensions of ignorance, where ignorance in decision-making processes were an indication of choosing stupidity by avoiding responsibility. Such avoidance of responsibility by the anti-vax and “freedom” rallies that we have s...
We know pandemic public health measures work, and complicit ignorance and denial of scientific evidence does not. But, has a failure to embrace critical thinking, or claims to extreme conservative ideologies, provided comfort to people wishing for “bliss” in their lives? Regardless of the cost to and sacrifice of others? Some would say so. Read mor...
- James Gacek
Over the course of two chapters, he discusses a wide array of research and offers numerous examples to support the plausible claim that ignorance is too multifaceted to view in either an exclusively negative or an exclusively positive light.
Sep 24, 2020 · Let’s look at what results from ignorance: avoidance of facts and information, a skewed view of the world where you don’t want to learn more about something, a desire to label and judge something...
Oct 19, 2023 · “Examples of such willful ignorance abound in everyday life, such as when consumers ignore information about the problematic origins of the products they buy,” said lead author Linh Vu, MS, a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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Let me give a few examples that illustrate how desperately we need more philosophical work on ignorance. It is widely thought – at least, since Aristotle – that ignorance can excuse, especially ignorance for which one is blameless and which is factual ignorance rather than moral ignorance.
