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University of Ignorance (Non-Kairos references)

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Abbott, Andrew.  The System of Professions: an essay on the division of expert labor. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Abbott, Andrew.  Varieties of Ignorance. The American Sociologist, 41, 2010, 2, pp. 174-189. [abstract]

Abbott, Andrew.  Publication and the Future of Knowledge. Association of American University Presses, 2008. [text]

Abbott, Andrew.  Chaos of Disciplines. University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Alexander, Andrew.  America and the Imperialism of Ignorance: how America won the war and lost the peace - US Foreign Policy Since 1945. Biteback Publishing, 2011.

Alexander, Christopher.  New Concepts in Complexity Theory: an overview of the four books of the Nature of Order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised. 2003. [text]

Alexander, Christopher.  The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press, 1979. [summary]

Alexander, Christopher.  Harmony-Seeking Computations: a science of non-classical dynamics based on the progressive evolution of the larger whole. International Journal for Unconventional Computing (IJUC), 5, 2009. [text]

Alexander, Christopher.  A Pattern Language. Oxford University Press, 1977. [summary]

Armour, P. G.  The Five Orders of Ignorance. Communications of the ACM, 43, 2000, 10, pp. 17-20.. [text]

Barfield, Owen.  Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960s. Wesleyan, 1963.

Baroni, Pietro / Guida, Giovanni / Mussi, Silvano.  From Ignorance to Uncertainty: a conceptual analysis.. [text]

Bennett, Andrew.  Ignorance: literature and agnoiology. Manchester University Press, 2009.

Berry, Wendell.  The Way of Ignorance. And Other Essays. Shoemaker and Hoard, 2005.

Blattner, William.  Introduction to Philosophy: Freedom. Cengage Learning, 2009.

Brawe, Yaakov.  In Pursuit of Ignorance. Chabad.org, 2004. [text]

Campbell, Donald T.  Ethnocentrism of disciplines and the fish-scale model of omniscience. In: M. Sherif and C. W. Sherif (Eds.), Interdisciplinary relations in the social sciences. Aldine, 1969, pp. 328-348.

Carey, Nessa.  The Epigenetics Revolution: how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance. Columbia University Press, 2012.

Christensen, Clayton M. / Eyring, Henry J.  The Innovative University: changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out. Jossey-Bass, 2011.

Cohen, L. M.  Mapping the Domains of Ignorance and Knowledge in Gifted Education. Roeper Review, 18, 1996, 3, pp. 183-189.

Davidson, Lawrence.  The Whys of American Ignorance. Consortiumnews.com, 6 April 2013. [text]

Deacon, Terrence W.  The Symbolic Species: the co-evolution of language and the brain. W. W. Norton, 1998.

Deacon, Terrence W.  Incomplete Nature: how mind emerged from matter. W. W. Norton, 2011.

DeLong, David W.  Lost Knowledge: confronting the threat of an aging workforce. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Denby, E. / Gammack, J.  Modelling Ignorance Levels in Knowledge-Based Decision Support. Proceedings of the 2nd Western Australian Workshop on Information Systems Research, 1999. [text]

Deutscher, Max.  Subjecting and Objecting: an essay in objectivity.â?. University of Queensland Press, 1983.

Diamond, Jared M.  The World Until Yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies?. Viking Adult, 2012.

Dubois, Didier / Prade, Henri / Smets, Philippe.  Representing Partial Ignorance. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 26, 1996, pp. 361-377. [abstract]

Duncan, Ronald / Weston-Smith, Miranda  (Eds.).    The Encyclopedia of Ignorance: everything you ever wanted to know about the unknown. Pocket Books, 1978.

Faber, M. / Manstetten, R. / Proops, J.  Toward an Open Future: ignorance, novelty and evolution. In: Costanza, R., Norton, B. and Haskell, B., Eds., Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management, Island Press, 1992.

Firestein, Stuart.  Ignorance: how it drives science. Oxford University Press, 2012. [summary]

Francis, Richard C.  Epigenetics: how environment shapes our genes W. W. Norton, 2012.

Ginsberg, Benjamin.  The Fall of the Faculty: the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Gross, Matthias / McGoey, Linsey  (Eds.).    Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge, 2015.

Härpfer, Claudius / Wagner, Gerhard.  Aspekte einer. Soziologie des Nichtwissens. Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 20, 2009, 1, p. 124. [abstract]

Haeckel, Ernst.  Art Forms from the Ocean: the Radiolarian Atlas of 1862. Prestel Verlag, 2005.

Hamblin, C. L.  Mathematical Models of Dialogue. Theoria 37, 1971, pp. 130-155.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas.  The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization. Knopf. 2006. [summary]

Israilidis, John.  Ignorance Management: an alternative perspective on knowledge management. 2013. [text]

Janis, L. L.  Victims of Groupthink. Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

Köhn, Jörg.  Sustainability in Question: the search for a conceptual framework. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.

Kant, Immanuel.  The Conflict of the Faculties. University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Kerwin, Ann / Witte, Marlys.  Q-cubed Programs: What Is Ignorance?. [text]

Kerwin, Ann / Witte, Marlys.  The Map of Ignorance.

Kerwin, Ann.  None Too Solid: Medical Ignorance. Science Communication, 15, 1993, 2, pp. 166-185. [text]

Klapp, Orrin E.  Opening and Closing; strategies of information adaptation in society. Cambridge Unviersity Press, 1978.

Kleinman, Daniel Lee / Suryanarayanan, Sainath.  Dying Bees and the Social Production of Ignorance. Science Technology Human Values, May 2012. [abstract]

Kruger, J. / Dunning, David.  Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1999, 6, pp. 1121-1134.

Kruglanski, A. W. / Webster, D. M.  Motivated closing of the mind: "seizing" and "freezing". Psychological Review, 1996, 103, pp. 263-283 [text]

Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Langer, E. J.  The Illusion of Control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32, 1975, pp. 311-328.

Maruyama, Magoroh.  Polyocular Vision or Subunderstanding. Organization Studies, 25, 2004, 3, pp. 467-480.

Maruyama, Magoroh.  Mindscapes, social patterns and future development of scientific theory types. Cybernetica, 1980, 23, 1, pp. 5-25. [summary]

McGoey, Linsey.  An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance: essays on the limits of knowing. Routledge, 2016.

Mitroff, I. I. / Linstone, H. A.  The Unbounded Mind: breaking the chains of traditional business thinking. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Pollard, Dave.  A Taxonomy of Ignorance. Green Chameleon. [text]

Pollard, Dave.  The Way of Ignorance. 2006. [text]

Popova, Maria.  How Ignorance Fuels Science and the Evolution of Knowledge. Brain Pickings, 2 February 2012. [text]

Proctor, Robert N. / Schiebinger, Londa  (Eds.).    Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance. Stanford University Press, 2008. [summary]

Rescher, Nicholas.  Unknowability: an inquiry into the limits of knowledge. Lexington Books, 2009.

Rescher, Nicholas.  Paradoxes: their roots, range, and resolution. Open Court, 2001.

Rescher, Nicholas.  The Strife of Systems: an essay on the grounds and implications of philosophical diversity. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.

Rescher, Nicholas.  Ignorance: on the wider implications of deficient knowledge. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Rescher, Nicholas.  Aporetics: rational deliberation in the face of inconsistency. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Rescher, Nicholas.  The Limits of Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

Reser, J. P. / Smithson, M.  When Ignorance is Adaptive: Not Knowing about the Nuclear Threat. Knowledge in Society, 1988, 1, pp. 7-27.

Riley, Naomi Schaefer.  The Faculty Lounges: and other reasons why you won't get the college education you pay for. Ivan R. Dee, 2011.

Rorty, Amélie.  Essays on Aristotles Ethics. University of California Press, 1980.

Schamanek, Andreas.  Taxonomies of the Unknown: a compilation with references of some classifications, systematics and other orders of what is not known.. [text]

Sennett, R.  The Uses of Disorder. Vintage Books, 1970.

Shackle, G. L. S.  The Bounds of Unknowledge. In: J. Wiseman (Ed.), Beyond Positive Economics, St Martin's Press, 1983.

Shepherd, Steven / Kay, Aaron C.  On the Perpetuation of Ignorance: system dependence, system justification and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 2012, 2, pp. 264-280. [text]

Sinkavich, F. J.  Performance and Metamemory: do students know what they don't know?. Instructional Psychology, 22, 1995, pp. 77-87. [abstract]

Smets, Philippe.  Varieties of Ignorance and the Need for Well-founded Theories. Information Sciences - ISCI, 57-58, 1991, pp. 135-144. [abstract]

Smets, Philippe.  Varieties of Ignorance and the Need for Well-founded Theories. IRIDIA-Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1999. [text]

Smithson, Michael.  Ignorance and Disasters. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 8, 1990, 3, pp. 207-235. [text]

Smithson, Michael.  Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms. Springer-Verlag, 1989.

Smithson, Michael.  Ignorance and Science. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 15, 1993, December, 2, pp. 133-156.

Smithson, Michael.  Toward a social theory of ignorance. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 15, 1985, 2, pp. 151-172. [abstract]

Standen, Peter / McKenna, Richard / Williams, Mark.  Using the Ignorance Paradigm to Teach Lifelong Learning Skills. Educação na Sociedade de Informação. [text]

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007. [summary]

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  Antifragile: things that gain from disorder. Random House, 2012. [summary]

Thompson, H.  Ignorance and Ideological Hegemony: a critique of neoclassical economics. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 8, 1997, 4, pp. 291-305.. [text]

Toffler, Alvin.  The Third Wave. Bantam Books, 1980.

Twale, Darla J. / De Luca, Barbara M.  Faculty Incivility: the rise of the academic bully culture and what to do about it. Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Vitek, Bill.  The Virtues of Ignorance: complexity, sustainability and the limits of knowledge. University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Walton, Douglas.  Profiles of Dialogue for Evaluating Arguments from Ignorance. Argumentation, 13, 1999,, pp. 53-71. [text]

Walton, Douglas.  Arguments from Ignorance. Penn State Press, 1995.

Walton, Douglas.  Reasoning from Paradigms and Negative Evidence. [text]

Wang, Pei.  A Unified Treatment of Uncertainties. Indiana University, 1993. [text]

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Woodward, Thomas / Gills, James.  The Mysterious Epigenome: what lies beyond DNA. Kregel Publications, 2011.

Yabrov, Alexander A.  From Uncertainty of Ignorance to Uncertainty of Science. Tractatus Scientifico-Philosophicus. AuthorHouse, 2002.

Yates, Frances A.  The Art of Memory. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Zaidman, A.  Regaining lost knowledge through dynamic analysis and aspect orientation: an industrial experience report.,Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2006. CSMR 2006. [abstract]