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Deliberate ignorance : choosing not to know

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Strungmann forum reports | / edited by Julia R. LuppPublication details: MIT Press 2020 Cambridge Description: xv; 378pISBN:
  • 9780262045599
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121.2 D379
Summary: The history of intellectual thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought, yet individuals and groups often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. When is this a virtue, when is it a vice, and what can be learned from formally modeling the underlying motives? On which normative grounds can it be judged? Which institutional interventions can promote or prevent it? In this book, psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the scope of deliberate ignorance.
List(s) this item appears in: New arrival May 30 to June 05, 2022
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur General Stacks 121.2 D379 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out to Hariharan Ramchandra Purohit (S2212826100) 16/07/2025 A185727
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The history of intellectual thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought, yet individuals and groups often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. When is this a virtue, when is it a vice, and what can be learned from formally modeling the underlying motives? On which normative grounds can it be judged? Which institutional interventions can promote or prevent it? In this book, psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the scope of deliberate ignorance.

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