The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (Clark Lectures)
ISBN 10: 0813124778 ISBN 13: 9780813124773
Published by University Press of Kentucky, 2008
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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 putting this new perspective to work in our professional and personal lives we can live sustainably on Earth.
About the Author: Bill Vitek is associate professor of philosophy at Clarkson University. He is the author of several books, including Promising, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place and Applying Philosophy. Wes Jackson is the president of the Land Institute and former professor at Kansas Wesleyan and California State universities. He is the author of several books, including Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, Becoming Native to This Place, and Altars of an Unhewn Stone.
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Title: The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, ...
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good