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962956
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b717326
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The virtues of ignorance : : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge /\ edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson.
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| Publication Statement
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Lexington, Ky. :: University Press of Kentucky,, ©2008.
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Culture of the land
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1 online resource (354 pages)
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0813138760
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: 0813172861
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: 9780813172866
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0813124778
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9780813124773
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Toward an ignorance-based worldview / Wes Jackson -- The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry -- Ignorance, an inner perspective / Robert Perry -- Human ignorance and the limited use of history / Richard D. Lamm -- Ignorance and know-how / Conn Nugent -- Optimizing uncertainty / Raymond H. Dean -- Toward an ecological conversation / Steve Talbott -- Ignorance and ethics / Anna L. Peterson -- Imposed ignorance and humble ignorance: two worldviews / Paul G. Heltne -- Battle for the soul of ignorance: rhetoric and philosophy in classical Athens / Charles Marsh -- Choosing ignorance within a learning universe / Peter G. Brown -- The path of enlightened ignorance: Alfred North Whitehead and Ernst Mayr / Strachan Donnelley -- Joyful ignorance and the civic mind / Bill Vitek -- I don't know / Robert Root-Bernstein -- Lessons learned from ignorance: the curriculum on medical (and other) ignorance / Marlys Hearst Witte [and others] -- Economics and the promotion of ignorance-squared / Herb Thompson -- Educating for ignorance / Jon Jensen -- Climate change and the limits of knowledge / Joe Marocco -- Can we see with fresh eyes? beyond a culture of abstraction / Craig Holdrege.
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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 put.
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Agriculture-- Philosophy.
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Conservation of natural resources.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Nature and civilization.
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Philosophy and science.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Sustainable development.
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Agriculture-- Philosophy.
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Conservation of natural resources.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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Nature and civilization.
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Philosophy and science.
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SCIENCE-- Environmental Science.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Sustainable development.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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601
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S494.5.P485V57 2008eb
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Jackson, Wes,1936-
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Vitek, William,1957-
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