Can We Rationally Deal with Ignorance? A Review of El Kassar’s How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance? Sonja Riegler Ignorance is both pervasive and difficult to define. From misinformation about climate change and manufactured skepticism surrounding vaccine safety to the persistence of…
Can We Rationally Deal with Ignorance? A Review of El Kassar’s How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance? Sonja Riegler
Ignorance is both pervasive and difficult to define. From misinformation about climate change and manufactured skepticism surrounding vaccine safety to the persistence of racist, sexist, and classist ideologies, ignorance manifests in diverse and often troubling forms. In How Should We Rationally Deal with Ignorance? (2024), Nadja El Kassar makes a nuanced, innovative, and interdisciplinary contribution to the field of epistemologies of ignorance.
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