Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education
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DOI: 10.1002/berj.4138
Abstract: This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education… read more here.
Keywords: human rights; tackling ignorance; rights education; ignorance ... See more keywords
Education and Ignorance: Between the Noun of Knowledge and the Verb of Thinking
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DOI: 10.1007/s11217-020-09718-9
Abstract: In this paper we look at the relations between knowledge and thinking through the lens of ignorance. In relation to knowledge, ignorance becomes its “constitutive outside,” and as such it may be politically organised in… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; noun knowledge; ignorance; ignorance noun ... See more keywords
We don’t know we don’t know: asserting ignorance
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02300-y
Abstract: The pragmatic logic of assertions shows a connection between ignorance and (informal) decidability. In it, we can express pragmatic factual ignorance and first-order ignorance as well as some of their variants. We also show how… read more here.
Keywords: know asserting; order ignorance; second order; ignorance ... See more keywords
Metaphor, ignorance and the sentiment of (ir)rationality
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02489-y
Abstract: Metaphor has been considered as a cognitive process, independent of the verbal versus visual mode, through which an unknown conceptual domain is understood in terms of another known conceptual domain. Metaphor might instead be viewed… read more here.
Keywords: sentiment rationality; metaphor; ignorance; existing properties ... See more keywords
Willful ignorance in law and epistemology
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04847-x
Abstract: In analytic epistemology, the propositional ignorance of an agent is consistently defined in terms of an agent not having knowledge or true belief that something is the case. Recently, however, Piedrahita (2021) and Pritchard (2021)… read more here.
Keywords: ignorance; law epistemology; willful ignorance; ignorance law ... See more keywords
Ignorance Lost: A Reply to Yaffe on the Culpability of Willful Ignorance
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DOI: 10.1007/s11572-017-9414-0
Abstract: In a recent paper in this journal, Gideon Yaffe provides an expected utility model of culpability in order to explain why willfully ignorant misconduct sometimes is just as culpable as knowing misconduct. Although promising, I… read more here.
Keywords: yaffe; culpability willful; view; ignorance ... See more keywords
Accounting for ignorance: An investigation into corruption, immigration and the state
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102147
Abstract: Abstract This research aims to investigate the financial and immigration mismanagement in Italy in the context of the recent refugee crisis. The paper contributes to previous accounting studies on corruption and immigration by unveiling the… read more here.
Keywords: state; corruption immigration; accounting; ignorance ... See more keywords
I know that I know nothing: Cortical thickness and functional connectivity underlying meta-ignorance ability in pre-schoolers
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DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100738
Abstract: Highlights • At five years old, we start to be able to report that we do not know something.• Cortical thickness in mOFC linked to childrens' ability to report their ignorance.• This region was functionally… read more here.
Keywords: know nothing; ignorance; ability; cortical thickness ... See more keywords
What’s Going On? Disinformation, Understanding, and Ignorance
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DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.10048
Abstract: Disinformation is a growing epistemic threat, yet its connection to understanding remains underexplored. In this paper, I argue that understanding – specifically, understanding how things work and why they work the way they do –… read more here.
Keywords: ignorance; understanding ignorance; disinformation understanding; disinformation ... See more keywords
The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance Edited by Rik Peels and Martijn Blaauw Cambridge University Press, 2016. 217pp, $99.99 ISBN: 9780511820076
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DOI: 10.1017/s0031819117000389
Abstract: Rik Peels and Martijn Blaauw offer two key observations in their introduction to The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance. The first is that epistemologists have largely ignored ignorance. The only exception they note to this rule… read more here.
Keywords: martijn blaauw; dimensions ignorance; peels martijn; rik peels ... See more keywords
What I Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You: The Relation Between Professed Ignorance and Later Knowledge Claims
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DOI: 10.1037/dev0000294
Abstract: Testimony is a valuable source of information for young learners, in particular if children maintain vigilance against errors while still being open to learning from imperfectly knowledgeable sources. We find support for this idea by… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; ignorance; hurt relation; professed ignorance ... See more keywords