Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon. -- .
Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon. -- .
Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lund, Sweden, Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science and a former Wallenberg Fellow of Environment and Sustainability at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction 2 What knowledge resistance isn't and a hint at what it is 3 If you're with us, don't believe them 4 Why invalid claims can be valuable 5 Knowledge belief first, confirming evidence second 6 What's in it for me to know that? 7 When knowledge is responsibility and ignorance freedom 8 What if the earth is round? Concerns about cultural consequences 9 How to resist knowledge resistance - and when 10 Is knowledge resistance always bad, and other questions Index
1 Introduction 2 What knowledge resistance isn't and a hint at what it is 3 If you're with us, don't believe them 4 Why invalid claims can be valuable 5 Knowledge belief first, confirming evidence second 6 What's in it for me to know that? 7 When knowledge is responsibility and ignorance freedom 8 What if the earth is round? Concerns about cultural consequences 9 How to resist knowledge resistance - and when 10 Is knowledge resistance always bad, and other questions Index
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