Ignorant Cognition A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing

Ignorant Cognition A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing / by Selene Arfini.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance. Using a set of cognitive tools and models, it discusses features that can describe a state of ignorance if linked to a particular type of cognition affecting the agent’s social behavior, belief system, and inferential capacit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arfini, Selene (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 46
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Subjects:
Philosophy and social sciences.
Cognitive psychology.
Epistemology.
Ethics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Do We Get to Know the Unknown?
  • Part I: The Fugitive Nature of Ignorance
  • The Tacit Dimension of Ignorance
  • The Bubble Theses
  • Cognitive Autoimmunity: Metacognitive Consequences of the Bubble Theses
  • Part II: The Tenacity of Ignorance in Human Ampliative Reasoning
  • Reasoning and Ignorantiam
  • Of Habit and Ignorance
  • Abduction: Enhancing Knowledge with an Ignorance-based Reasoning
  • Ignorance-Based Mental Models: Thought Experiments, Metaphors, and Abduction
  • Part III: The Social Diffusion of Ignorance
  • Cognitive Niches: Knowledge Distribution and Ignorance Sharing
  • The Toleration of Ignorance in Online-Communities
  • Online Communities and the Distribution of Ignorance
  • The Ignorant Cognition: Concluding Remarks.

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