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9781138945661 | Routledge, July 18, 2016, cover price $140.00
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9781909470910 | Triarchy Pr, February 1, 2016, cover price $18.00
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9780812247510 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $55.00
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9780471947141, titled "The Geography of Europe's Futures" | Halsted Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $54.95 | also contains The Geography of Europe''s Futures
Product Description: A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I donât know.In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean...read more
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9781594632396 | Riverhead Books, September 12, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I donât know.
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9780199828074 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 23, 2012, cover price $23.95
Product Description: The (Dis)information Age challenges prevailing notions about the impact of new information and media technologies. The widespread acceptance of ideas about the socially transformative power of these technologies demands a close and critical interrogation...read more
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9781433115028 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 20, 2012, cover price $101.95 | About this edition: The (Dis)information Age challenges prevailing notions about the impact of new information and media technologies.
Product Description: A Defense of Ignorance develops new ideas in feminist epistemology by exploring diverse and sometimes positive roles for ignorance. Cynthia Townley argues that epistemic values cannot simply be reduced to the value of increasing knowledge and that ignorance is not merely inescapable for epistemic agents, but, rather, is valuable...read more
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9780739151051 | Lexington Books, August 11, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A Defense of Ignorance develops new ideas in feminist epistemology by exploring diverse and sometimes positive roles for ignorance.
Product Description: Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions of marginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and even death among our youth. The authors of this edited collection challenge the ambivalence - ignorance - found in the construction of curriculum, teaching practices, research guidelines, and policy mandates in our schools...read more
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9781617353468 | Information Age Pub Inc, February 14, 2011, cover price $85.99 | About this edition: Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions of marginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and even death among our youth.
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9781617353451 | Information Age Pub Inc, February 14, 2011, cover price $45.99 | About this edition: Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions of marginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and even death among our youth.
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9780521894913 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2008), cover price $109.99
Product Description: Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as âa boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me...read more
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9780822960140 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, February 28, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge.
Product Description: Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language -- the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions...read more
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9780199208418 | Clarendon Pr, June 28, 2007, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language -- the use of sentences to ask questions.
In these challenging pages, Unger argues for the extreme skeptical view that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have any reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot ever have any emotions about anything: no one can ever be happy or sad about anything. Finally, in this reduction to absurdity of virtually all our supposed thought, he argues that no one can ever believe, or even say, that anything is the case.
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9780198244080 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In these challenging pages, Unger argues for the extreme skeptical view that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have any reason at all for anything.
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9780198244172 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 8, 1979, cover price $36.95
Product Description: The Profession of Ignorance provides a readable discussion in dialogue form of the philosophy of "ignorance" as practiced by Socrates, who claimed a kind of knowledge of ignorance as human wisdom. Martin McAvoy shows that understanding this profession of ignorance is essential to understanding the character of Plato's Socrates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761813873 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Profession of Ignorance provides a readable discussion in dialogue form of the philosophy of "ignorance" as practiced by Socrates, who claimed a kind of knowledge of ignorance as human wisdom.
Jewish humor, folklore, and tales demonstrate the use of information, understanding, wisdom, and reverence in managing impossible life situations
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9781570624483 | Shambhala Pubns, July 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Jewish humor, folklore, and tales demonstrate the use of information, understanding, wisdom, and reverence in managing impossible life situations
Product Description: Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed fallacious...read more
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9780271014746 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $65.00
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9780271014753 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed fallacious.
9780030028670, titled "Twenty-Twenty Statistics Tutorial Workbook" | Saunders College Pub, January 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | also contains Twenty-Twenty Statistics Tutorial Workbook
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9780471947134, titled "The Geography of Europe's Futures" | Belhaven Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $88.00 | also contains Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
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9780471947141, titled "The Geography of Europe's Futures" | Halsted Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $54.95 | also contains Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
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9780387969459 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1989, cover price $139.00
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9780030028670 | Saunders College Pub, January 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | also contains Arguments from Ignorance
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