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1. • • lack of knowledge, understanding, or information about something: ignorance about Public ignorance about the disease is still a cause for concern.
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   What does 'ignorance' mean?

   • In an interesting article, Talisse contends that we use the term ‘ignorance’ to denote (1) someone’s believing what is false, (2) someone’s having an unjustified belief, or (3) someone’s holding a belief at which she arrived in an epistemically irresponsible way (cf. Talisse 2006, 456).

   What Is Ignorance? | Philosophia - Springer

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   What is the problem of ignorance?

   • The litera-ture on the so-called problem of ignorance has mostly been concerned with the issues that arise from the well-documented fact that the citizenry is deplorably ignorant of basic facts about politics, which arguably pre-vents them from making informed political choices.

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   What is the difference between ignorance and lack of knowledge?

   • Footnote 11 Ignorance, one could say, is equivalent to lack of knowledge on this weak understanding of knowledge, whereas it is not on a stronger understanding of knowledge, a sense which requires more than true belief. Footnote 12 On this line of reasoning, (e) cannot count as a category of failing to know in a weak sense.

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   What are the three conceptions of ignorance?

   • In this article, I examine the proliferation of the concept ignorance that has come with the increased interest in the topic. I identify three conceptions of ignorance in the current literature: (1) ignorance as lack of knowledge/true belief, (2) ignorance as actively upheld false outlooks and (3) ignorance as substantive epistemic practice.

   What Ignorance Really Is. Examining the Foundations of Epistemology of

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   Should we analyse ignorance?

   • Thus, we might get a better grip on knowledge by analysing ignorance. But it seems to me that ignorance is valuable to understand in itself, independently of its exact relationship to knowledge – there are many fascinating philosophical questions that have to do with ignorance and not primarily with knowledge.

   We Need to Know More About Ignorance

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   Why is ignorance important?

   • The list seems endless: there is a large number of things that we desire to become or remain ignorant about because of their moral, social, or prudential value. Thus, ignorance is philosophically important because it raises challenging conceptual issues, but also because we sometimes aim at it given the value it has for us.

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3. archive.philosophersmag.com › we-need-to-know-moreWe Need to Know More About Ignorance - The Philosophers ...

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   Does ignorance come in degrees and, if so, how should we understand those degrees? How does ignorance of facts or individual propositions relate to ignorance on some topic, say quantum mechanics, and how does ignorance on certain topics relate to being an ignoramus, that is, an ignorant person?

4. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullWhat Ignorance Really Is. Examining the Foundations of ...

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   Sep 28, 2018 · I identify three conceptions of ignorance in the current literature: (1) ignorance as lack of knowledge/true belief, (2) ignorance as actively upheld false outlooks and (3) ignorance as substantive epistemic practice.

   • Author: Nadja El Kassar

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5. academic.oup.com › book › 45598Ignorance: A Philosophical Study | Oxford Academic

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   Feb 23, 2023 · This book rigorously develops a full-blown epistemology of ignorance. It answers questions that are rarely addressed in philosophy; for example, what is ignorance of facts or truths? Is it simply the absence of knowledge, or are things more complex?

   • Author: Rik Peels

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7. theconversation.com › for-some-ignorance-is-blissFor some, ignorance is bliss; for others, ignorance is ...

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   • ‘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...

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   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...

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   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...

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   • Author: James Gacek

8. link.springer.com › article › 10What Is Ignorance? | Philosophia - Springer

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   May 8, 2009 · In an interesting article, Talisse contends that we use the term ‘ignorance’ to denote (1) someone’s believing what is false, (2) someone’s having an unjustified belief, or (3) someone’s holding a belief at which she arrived in an epistemically irresponsible way (cf. Talisse 2006, 456).

   • Author: Rik Peels
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   • Publish Year: 2010

9. scholar.harvard.edu › files › zpamukWHAT FOLLOWS FROM THE PROBLEM OF IGNORANCE? - Scholars at Harvard

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   WHAT FOLLOWS FROM THE PROBLEM OF IGNORANCE? ABSTRACT: In Power Without Knowledge, Jeffrey Friedman develops a cri-tique of social science to argue that current technocratic practices are prone to predic-tive failures and unintended consequences.

10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › IgnoranceIgnorance - Wikipedia

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    Ignorance is a lack of knowledge or understanding. Deliberate ignorance is a culturally-induced phenomenon, the study of which is called agnotology.