Embodied, extended, ignorant minds : new studies on the nature of not-knowing
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Embodied, extended, ignorant minds : new studies on the nature of not-knowing
（Synthese library, v. 463）
Springer, c2022
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This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different phenomena and subjects of research, from known events in history and sociology of science to the investigation of ordinary reasoning and cognitive processing. Nonetheless, although interested scholars have discussed ignorance phenomena and their impact on cognition, most of them have only adopted an internalist perspective to approach this theme. Meanwhile, even though externalist perspectives on cognition flourished in recent literature, authors have paid little attention to the emerging field of ignorance studies. Ignorance has been generally left out from the inquiries on the extension of cognitive states, cognitive processes, and predictive reasoning. Thus, in this volume, we seek to merge the two growing areas of research and to fill this research gap fruitfully. By addressing the uncomfortable themes that pertain to ignorance and related phenomena through an externalist perspective, this book aims to provide much food for thoughts to cognitive scientists and philosophers alike, enriching the current range and reach of both ignorance studies and externalist approaches to cognition.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Externalist Perspectives on Ignorance and Cognition Selene Arfini and Lorenzo Magnani
Chapter 2. Relational IgnoranceSamantha Copeland
Chapter 3. Creative IgnoranceWendy Ross
Chapter 4. Extended IgnoranceDuncan Pritchard
Chapter 5. Mindshaping, Racist Habits, and White IgnoranceMichelle Maiese
Chapter 6. Ignorance and (Im)PossibilityVlad Glaveanu
Chapter 7. Mind Invasion through Cognitive Integration: Facebook and the Exploita-tion of Users' IgnoranceGiacomo Figa-Talamanca and Elisabeth Hunting
Chapter 8. Institutions as Cognitive Niches: A Dynamics of Knowledge and IgnoranceKonrad Werner
Chapter 9. How Do We Think about the Unknown? The Self-Awareness of Ignorance as a Tool for Managing the Anguish of Not KnowingAlger Sans Pinillos and Lorenzo Magnani
Chapter 10. How Do We Become Ignorant? Affording Ignorance Through Epistemic ActionsSelene Arfini
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