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Science and the production of ignorance :when the quest for knowledge is thwa…
An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance--both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer…
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Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective
A Bradford book."The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in consciousness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286596
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- 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages)
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Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice
Includes index.Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age."Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of pr…
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- 9780262256346
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) :illustrations
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Deliberate ignorance :choosing not to know
"Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars discuss when is deliberate ignorance a virtue, and what type of environment does it require"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363273
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The smart mission :NASA's lessons for managing knowledge, people, and projects
"How NASA developed innovative strategies for managing knowledge and learning, and how other organizations can learn from NASA's success"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369558
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Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistem…
"A Bradford book."Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world.Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its origins in John Locke's work on…
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- 1 online resource (x, 123 pages)
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Information politics on the Web
Does the information on the Web offer many alternative accounts of reality, or does it subtly align with an official version? In Information Politics on the Web, Richard Rogers identifies the cultures, techniques, and devices that rank and recommend information on the Web, analyzing not only the political content of Web sites but the politics built into the Web's infrastructure. Addressing the …
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- 9780262256872
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- 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations
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Conditionals
"A Bradford Book."A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (246 pages) :illustrations
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Anti-individualism and knowledge
"A Bradford book."Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by anti-individualism, which holds that a subject's thoughts are determined not only by what is inside her head but also by aspects of her environment. Despite its dominance, anti-individualism is subject to a daunting array of epistemological objections: that it is incompatible with the privileged access each subject has to her tho…
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Participating in explanatory dialogues :interpreting and responding to questi…
While much has been written about the areas of text generation, text planning, discourse modeling, and user modeling, Johanna Moore's book is one of the first to tackle modeling the complex dynamics of explanatory dialogues. It describes an explanation-planning architecture that enables a computational system to participate in an interactive dialogue with its users, focusing on the knowledge st…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) :illustrations.
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