The virtues of ignorance : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge / edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson.
| Uniform Title: | Culture of the land.
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
2008.
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| Series: | Culture of the land.
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| Physical Description: | 354 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.