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Ignorance : on the wider implications of deficient knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.
- Title
- Ignorance : on the wider implications of deficient knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | BD221 .R47 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 170 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher presents a comprehensive study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ignorance in areas of philosophy, scientific endeavor, and ordinary life. Citing philosophers, theologians, and scientists from Socrates to Steven Hawking, Rescher seeks to uncover the factors that hinder our cognition. His thorough analysis concludes that ignorance itself is a fertile topic for knowledge, and recognizing the boundaries of our comprehension is where wisdom begins."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The reach of ignorance -- Questions and insolubilia -- Cognitive shortfall -- Cognitive finitude -- On limits to science -- Obstacles to predictive foreknowledge -- Can computers mend matters? -- Implications of ignorance.
- ISBN
- 9780822960140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822960141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008052956
- OCLC
- 289067832
- SCSB-11068520
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library