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Ignorance

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021
For over twenty years, ignorance has been a thriving research topic in sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology, leading to a rich body of literature. This article critically rethinks the contributions and limitations of ignorance studies.
Laura Barbier, Soraya Boudia, Maël Goumri, Justyna Moizard-Lanvin   +3 more
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Information Pluralism and Some Informative Modes of Ignorance [PDF]

Information, 2011
In this paper information concepts will be roughly divided into two categories: The cybernetic and the semiotic-pragmatic. They are further divided into three and four subcategories, respectively. The cybernetic conception of information, which comprises
Erkki Patokorpi
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Governance between ignorance and evidence: Technology assessment in the context of pandemic crisis management

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2023
This article examines the relationship between knowledge and ignorance in the context of crises and corresponding technological solutions. It focuses on the case of pandemic simulation models as a specific form of dealing with uncertainty, which marks a
Gabriel Bartl
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Uncertain Knowledge: The Medicalisation of Intersex People and the Production of Ignorance [PDF]

Social Sciences
Ignorance is produced through mechanisms related to power relations and socio-cultural context. This article examines whether the theoretical conceptualisation of agnotology may be useful when exploring intersex and the way it has been erased socially ...
Michal Raz
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Sélectionner et agréger les ignorances

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021
On December 16, 2015, the City of Paris published the Environmental-Health Plan, the Parisian action plan in environmental-health that seeks to reduce both environmental pollutions and social inequalities in health.
Justyna Moizard-Lanvin
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Informed Ignorance as a Form of Epistemic Injustice [PDF]

Philosophies
Ignorance, or the lack of knowledge, appears to be steadily spreading, despite the increasing availability of information. The notion of informed ignorance herein proposed to describe the widespread position of being exposed to an abundance of ...
Noa Cohen, Mirko Daniel Garasic
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Ignorance

Spirituality Studies, 2019
In his essay, Sandó Kaisen provides an analysis of ignorance as the very core of human beingness and points out to the impermanence of all knowledge uncovered through the practice of the Sitting of the Buddha.
Sandó Kaisen
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Rational Moral Ignorance [PDF]

, 2021
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ...
Arpaly N., Arpaly N., Brandt R., Coates A., Ewing A., Johnson King Z., Lockhart T., Parfit D., Pittard J., Sepielli A., Smith M., Unger P., Wedgwood R., Wieland J., Williamson T., Zimmerman M.   +15 more
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Ignoring Non-ignorable Missingness

Psychometrika, 2023
The classical missing at random (MAR) assumption, as defined by Rubin (Biometrika 63:581–592, 1976), is often not required for valid inference ignoring the missingness process. Neither are other assumptions sometimes believed to be necessary that result from misunderstandings of MAR. We discuss three strategies that allow us to use standard estimators (
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Anders Skrondal
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Ignorance by choice: A meta-analytic review of the underlying motives of willful ignorance and its consequences.

Psychological bulletin, 2023
People sometimes avoid information about the impact of their actions as an excuse to be selfish. Such "willful ignorance" reduces altruistic behavior and has detrimental effects in many consumer and organizational contexts.
Linh Vu, Ivan Soraperra, Margarita Leib, Joël J. van der Weele, Shaul Shalvi   +4 more
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