Ignorance and Science
Dilemmas, Perspectives, and Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11277696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Smithson (0000-0003-4455-2192, James Cook University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-156 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Knowledge (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-0259 • E-ISSN: 2673-9585 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/107554709301500202 |
| OpenAlex | W2084573764 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 19 |
Recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in creative work on scientifc ignorance and uncertainty, which can be traced in part to a realization that ignorance and uncertainty cannot always be reduced or banished from science, and that they are social and cultural products rather than merely "part of the phenomenon. " The fact that ignorance is negotiable and yet fundamental to scientific work poses several important dilemmas and prospects. We may be participating in a shift from the traditional research strategies of reducing or banishing ignorance toward a deeper understanding of and greater capacity to cope with ignorance
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ignorance · Phenomenon · Realization (probability · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Beyond Individual Miranda Cases
The Korean press and Hwang’s fraud
Why Science Does Not Know
Towards a Negative History of Science
Strengthening the Role of Science in the Environmental Decision-Making Processes of Executive Government
Policing in an era of uncertainty
Manufacturing doubt
How to take non-knowledge seriously, or “the unexpected virtue of ignorance”
Six hours to study
Adaptive irrigation infrastructure — linking insights from human-water interactions and adaptive pathways
Varieties of Ignorance
Wrestling with uncertain risks
The role of risks and uncertainties in technological conflicts
Avoidable Ignorance and the Role of Cochrane and Campbell Reviews
Meanings of self-attributed ignorance
Constructing and Reconstructing Scientific Ignorance
Science or Ignorance of Animal Welfare? A Case Study
An actor-specific guideline for quality assurance in transdisciplinary research
On Drawing Attention to Ignorance
A Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking
Testing Public (Un)Certainty of Science
The Unknown in Process
Ignorance as an under-identified social problem1
The logic of strategic ignorance
Yields and Rabbit Holes
Ignorance and Uncertainty
Ambiguity and uncertainty in probabilistic inference.
Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms
The social construction of reality
The Intellectual and Social Organization Of the Sciences
The Development of Restrictedness in the Sciences
The Sin of Science
Usable Knowledge, Usable Ignorance
Lay Discourses of Science
Technological Citizenship
The Risks from Flooding
Three Fragments From a Sociologist's Notebooks
| Citations per year | 0.76 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2023 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |