Ignorance Unmasked: Essays in the New Science of Agnotology - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert N. Proctor (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor)Publish date:9/16/2025Pages:302
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503643956ISBN-10:1503643956UPC:9781503643956Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Social History, HistoryBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.82 x 5.83 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCEWK08ZCC
Ignorance Unmasked: Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here-and how we might escape.
From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology-the study of ignorance-can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?
Ignorance has...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503643956ISBN-10:1503643956UPC:9781503643956Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Social History, HistoryBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.82 x 5.83 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCEWK08ZCC
Robert N. Proctor is Professor of History at Stanford University. His books include Racial Hygiene (1988), Packaged Pleasures (2014), and Golden Holocaust (2011). Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. Her books include Gendered Innovations 2 (2020), Secret Cures of Slaves (Stanford, 2017), and Plants and Empire (2004). Together, Proctor and...
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