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The virtues of ignorance :

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0813138760

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0813172861

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9780813138763

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9780813172866

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0813124778

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9780813124773

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The virtues of ignorance :

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[Book]

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complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson.

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Lexington, Ky. :

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University Press of Kentucky,

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©2008.

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1 online resource (354 pages)

Series Title

Culture of the land

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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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 hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors offer profound arguments for the advantages of an ignorance-based worldview. Examining the relationship between the land and the future generations who will depend on it, they propose that, while we cannot improve upon nature, by put.

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Title

Virtues of ignorance.

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0813124778

Agriculture-- Philosophy.

Conservation of natural resources.

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)

Nature and civilization.

Philosophy and science.

Sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable development.

Agriculture-- Philosophy.

Conservation of natural resources.

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)

Nature and civilization.

Philosophy and science.

SCIENCE-- Environmental Science.

Sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable development.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- General.

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SCI026000

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TEC003070

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Jackson, Wes,1936-

Vitek, William,1957-

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20201208094018.0

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