Reflections on Knowledge Practices and the Problem of Ignorance

Making Knowledge: Explorations of the Indissoluble Relation Between Mind, Body and Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 167-182

  Dilley, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodily knowledge and craftwork mutuality of knowledge, specialist craft occupations; Ignorance, precondition of hierarchical social system hereditary transmission of learning; Knowing, fluid active process in flux, outcome of a simultaneous moving and knowing; Knowledge and ignorance, constituting informing relations of learning; Knowledge and nescience, timeless universals a philosophical speculation; Place of ignorance within conceptual schemes anthropologists of knowledge, and Western thought; Primal state of not knowing, Christian theology act of Eve offering Adam the fruit of the tree of knowledge; Problems of anthropological inquiry how knowledge might be transmitted; Reflections on knowledge practices and problem of ignorance; State of ignorance, virtuous moral load primal state of not knowing, state of innocence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885990708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444391473.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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