The virtues of ignorance : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge

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The virtues of ignorance : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge

edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson

(Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism)

The University Press of Kentucky, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Toward an ignorance-based worldview / Wes Jackson
  • The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry
  • Ignorance, an inner perspective / Robert Perry
  • Human ignorance and the limited use of history / Richard D. Lamm
  • Ignorance and know-how / Conn Nugent
  • Optimizing uncertainty / Raymond H. Dean
  • Toward an ecological conversation / Steve Talbott
  • Ignorance and ethics / Anna L. Peterson
  • Imposed ignorance and humble ignorance: two worldviews / Paul G. Heltne
  • Battle for the soul of ignorance: rhetoric and philosophy in classical Athens / Charles Marsh
  • Choosing ignorance within a learning universe / Peter G. Brown
  • The path of enlightened ignorance: Alfred North Whitehead and Ernst Mayr / Strachan Donnelley
  • Joyful ignorance and the civic mind / Bill Vitek
  • I don't know / Robert Root-Bernstein
  • Lessons learned from ignorance: the curriculum on medical (and other) ignorance / Marlys Hearst Witte ... [et al.]
  • Economics and the promotion of ignorance-squared / Herb Thompson
  • Educating for ignorance / Jon Jensen
  • Climate change and the limits of knowledge / Joe Marocco
  • Can we see with fresh eyes? beyond a culture of abstraction / Craig Holdrege

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