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Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.): The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge

Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.): The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the... Agric Hum Values (2009) 26:253–254 DOI 10.1007/s10460-009-9197-6 Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.): The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2008, 354 pp, ISBN 0-8131-2477-3 Edmund M. Harris Published online: 3 February 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Is ignorance really a bad thing? This question is the starting human activities. The authors of this book suggest that point for The Virtues of Ignorance, a pioneering collection ‘‘knowledge alone is not adequate to run the world,’’ and that seeks to start a conversation about the role of igno- seek to initiate a conversation about what an ignorance- rance in human understanding. Under the guidance of based worldview might look like—one ‘‘predicated on the editors Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson, the book lays out what assumption that human ignorance will always exceed and the authors see as the faults of the dominant ‘‘knowledge- outpace human knowledge’’ (p. 7). based worldview’’ and systematically explores the ways in Divided into four parts, the book guides readers through which an acknowledgment of the limits of human knowl- a series of essays written by a wide range of authors from edge could change the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.): The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge

Harris, Edmund
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 26 (3) – Feb 3, 2009
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2009 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/s10460-009-9197-6
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Agric Hum Values (2009) 26:253–254 DOI 10.1007/s10460-009-9197-6 Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.): The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2008, 354 pp, ISBN 0-8131-2477-3 Edmund M. Harris Published online: 3 February 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Is ignorance really a bad thing? This question is the starting human activities. The authors of this book suggest that point for The Virtues of Ignorance, a pioneering collection ‘‘knowledge alone is not adequate to run the world,’’ and that seeks to start a conversation about the role of igno- seek to initiate a conversation about what an ignorance- rance in human understanding. Under the guidance of based worldview might look like—one ‘‘predicated on the editors Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson, the book lays out what assumption that human ignorance will always exceed and the authors see as the faults of the dominant ‘‘knowledge- outpace human knowledge’’ (p. 7). based worldview’’ and systematically explores the ways in Divided into four parts, the book guides readers through which an acknowledgment of the limits of human knowl- a series of essays written by a wide range of authors from edge could change the

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