[lit-ideas] Re: Agnotology
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:06:29 +0100 (BST)
--- On Mon, 18/4/11, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Agnotology offers a new approach to the study of knowledge,
> an approach at
> least as complex and important as its more established
> sister,
> epistemology.
New? You have read Popper "On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance"
(republished in his essay collection "Conjectures and Refutations")? Aside from
the fancy name, is agnotology a newer approach than that? Indeed have not the
problems of epistemology, even traditional justificationist epistemology,
nearly always included understanding the sources of ignorance as a flip-side to
understanding the sources of knowledge? And is it not just ignorance to assert
or imply otherwise?
Donal
Knowledge is bliss
London
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