Education has a plurality of aims, one of which is to increase knowledge and decrease ignorance. The relation between knowledge and ignorance, however, turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Sometimes ignorance is actively held in place by various forces that… Read More ›
Dunning-Kruger effect
Science Denial, Pseudoskepticism, and Philosophical Deficits Undermining Public Understanding of Science: A Response to Sharon E. Mason, Lawrence Torcello
In this reply, I examine the relationship between science denialism and education. Specifically I want to address how the mode of science denial I identify as pseudoskepticism relates to information deficits of a philosophical nature … [please read below the… Read More ›
A Critical Catalogue of Ignorance, Nadja El Kassar
Author Information: Nadja El Kassar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, nadja.elkassar@gess.ethz.ch. El Kassar, Nadja. “A Critical Catalogue of Ignorance: A Reply to Patrick Bondy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 2 (2019): 49-51. The pdf of the article gives specific page… Read More ›