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Knowledge resistance
How we avoid insight from others
Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction2 What knowledge resistance isn't and a hint at what it is3 If you're with us, don't believe them4 Why invalid claims can be valuable5 Knowledge belief first, confirming evidence second6 What's in it for me to know that?7 When knowledge is responsibility and ignorance freedom8 What if the earth is round? Concerns about cultural consequences9 How to resist knowledge resistance - and when10 Is knowledge resistance always bad, and other questionsIndex
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.
ISBN-13:
9781526135209
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2019
Seiten:
266
Autor:
Mikael Klintman
Gewicht:
512 g
Format:
222x145x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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