[lit-ideas] Agnotology
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:28:05 EDT
-- "the study of ignorance" (Proctor) —of as much relevance to
philosophers and social scientists and others as it is to historians.
Agnotology offers a new approach to the study of knowledge, an approach at
least as complex and important as its more established sister,
epistemology.
The aim of agnotology is to map out this new ignorance-centered terrain in
an effort to determine just what and where it might add to
knowledge-centered terrains such as epistemology and philosophy of science and
how
valuable the additions might be.
Topics range over the naturalness and even inevitability of certain kinds
of ignorance and the unnaturalness or deliberate production of other kinds—
for example, on ignorance created through government secrecy and censorship,
cultural prejudice, industry influence on scientific research, and so on—
and the epistemological and societal implications of such ignorance.
The ultimate goal is to make a significant contribution to this new kind of
enquiry.
Renowned agnotologists include historians Norton Wise (UCLA), Naomi
Oreskes (San Diego), Peter Galison (Harvard), and Robert Proctor (Stanford);
sociologists Peter Weingart (Bielefeld) and Stefan Böschen (Augsburg);
neurobiologist Stuart Firestein (Columbia); mathematician/philosopher of
science
Daniel Andler (Sorbonne); and philosophers Nancy Cartwright (LSE and San
Diego), Philip Kitcher (Columbia), Pat Kitcher (Columbia), Hugh Lacey
(Swarthmore and São Paulo), Kevin Elliott (South Carolina), Torsten Wilholt
(Bielefeld), Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), and Janet Kourany (Notre Dame). The
program will also feature a screening of Peter Galison and Robb Moss’s
documentary film “Secrecy.”
JLS
At the Swimming-Pool Library -- reading
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