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The virtues of ignorance : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge /
Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, along with the notion that environmental problems can be solved with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Culture of the land.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 [and others]
- 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.