Ignorant Cognition A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing /

• Main Author: Arfini, Selene (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 46
• Subjects: Philosophy and social sciences.; Cognitive psychology.; Epistemology.; Ethics.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance. Using a set of cognitive tools and models, it discusses features that can describe a state of ignorance if linked to a particular type of cognition affecting the agent's social behavior, belief system, and inferential ca...

Table of Contents:

• Do We Get to Know the Unknown?
• Part I: The Fugitive Nature of Ignorance
• The Tacit Dimension of Ignorance
• The Bubble Theses
• Cognitive Autoimmunity: Metacognitive Consequences of the Bubble Theses
• Part II: The Tenacity of Ignorance in Human Ampliative Reasoning
• Reasoning and Ignorantiam
• Of Habit and Ignorance
• Abduction: Enhancing Knowledge with an Ignorance-based Reasoning
• Ignorance-Based Mental Models: Thought Experiments, Metaphors, and Abduction
• Part III: The Social Diffusion of Ignorance
• Cognitive Niches: Knowledge Distribution and Ignorance Sharing
• The Toleration of Ignorance in Online-Communities
• Online Communities and the Distribution of Ignorance
• The Ignorant Cognition: Concluding Remarks.