The virtues of ignorance
Subtitle: complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge
By: edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson.
Contributors: Vitek, William, 1957-; Jackson, Wes.
Series: Culture of the land
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780813124773
Subjects: Agriculture -- Philosophy; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainable development; Philosophy and science; Nature and civilization; Conservation of natural resources; Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Description: Bill Vitek, Wes Jackson, and a diverse group of thinkers ... offer profound arguments for the advantages of an ignorance-based worldview. Their essays explore this philosophy form numerous perspectives, including its origins, its essence, and how its implementation can preserve vital natural resources for posterity. All conclude that we must simply accept the proposition that our ignorance far exceeds our knowledge and always will.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward an ignorance-based worldview / Wes Jackson; title: The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry; title: Ignorance, an inner perspective / Robert Perry; title: Human ignorance and the limited use of history / Richard D. Lamm; title: Ignorance and know-how / Conn Nugent; title: Optimizing uncertainty / Raymond H. Dean; title: Toward an ecological conversation / Steve Talbott; title: Ignorance and ethics / Anna L. Peterson; title: Imposed ignorance and humble ignorance: two worldviews / Paul G. Heltne; title: Battle for the soul of ignorance: rhetoric and philosophy in classical Athens / Charles Marsh; title: Choosing ignorance within a learning universe / Peter G. Brown; title: The path of enlightened ignorance: Alfred North Whitehead and Ernst Mayr / Strachan Donnelley; title: Joyful ignorance and the civic mind / Bill Vitek; title: I don't know / Robert Root-Bernstein; title: Lessons learned from ignorance: the curriculum on medical (and other) ignorance / Marlys Hearst Witte ... [et al.]; title: Economics and the promotion of ignorance-squared / Herb Thompson; title: Educating for ignorance / Jon Jensen; title: Climate change and the limits of knowledge / Joe Marocco; title: Can we see with fresh eyes? beyond a culture of abstraction / Craig Holdrege.