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Understanding ignorance :the surprising impact of what we don't know
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm belief. Ignorance about American government and history is so alarming that the ideal of …
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Research in Computational Molecular Biology
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in April 2015. The 36 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. They report on original research in all areas of computational molecular biology and bioinformatics.
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Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within
"In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on. He argues that these, which he once regarded as the strongest case for the empiricist posit…
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- 9780262334488
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Liberalism in Practice: The Psychology and Pedagogy of Public Reason
An argument that draws on empirical findings in psychology to offer a blueprint for cultivating a widespread commitment to public reason.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 190 pages).
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There are no facts :attentive algorithms, extractive data practices, and the …
"There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated withi…
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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical his…
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Knowledge, concepts, and categories /
The study of mental representation is a central concern in contemporary cognitive psychology. Knowledge, Concepts, and Categories is unusual in that it presents key conclusions from across the different subfields of cognitive psychology. Readers will find data from many areas, including developmental psychology, formal modeling, neuropsychology, connectionism, and philosophy. The difficulty of …
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Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction
A Bradford book."Originally published: ?1992.Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's sy…
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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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