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Title The virtues of ignorance : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge / edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson.
Publication Info Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008.



Descript 1 online resource (354 pages).
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Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780813172866 (electronic bk.)
0813172861 (electronic bk.)
9780813138763 (electronic bk.)
0813138760 (electronic bk.)
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Series Culture of the land
Culture of the land.
Subject Agriculture -- Philosophy.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable development.
Philosophy and science.
Nature and civilization.
Conservation of natural resources.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Alt author Vitek, William, 1957-
Jackson, Wes.
Descript 1 online resource (354 pages).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780813172866 (electronic bk.)
0813172861 (electronic bk.)
9780813138763 (electronic bk.)
0813138760 (electronic bk.)
Series Culture of the land
Culture of the land.
Subject Agriculture -- Philosophy.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable development.
Philosophy and science.
Nature and civilization.
Conservation of natural resources.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Alt author Vitek, William, 1957-
Jackson, Wes.

Subject Agriculture -- Philosophy.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable development.
Philosophy and science.
Nature and civilization.
Conservation of natural resources.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Descript 1 online resource (354 pages).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Vitek, William, 1957-
Jackson, Wes.
ISBN 9780813172866 (electronic bk.)
0813172861 (electronic bk.)
9780813138763 (electronic bk.)
0813138760 (electronic bk.)

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