Knowledge and Ignorance: Essays on Lights and Shadows

✍ Scribed by Folke Dovring

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dovring explores some of the limits of science, the scientific method, and our approaches to conceptualizing problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
One: Beyond Science: Limits and Problems......Page 10
Two: Lighted Room: The Ways We See Things......Page 16
Three: Just Inside: The Ways We Know Things......Page 26
Four: Beyond Reach: Things We May Never Know......Page 40
Five: Design: The Ways Things Are Made......Page 56
Six: Process: The Ways Things Work......Page 76
Seven: Logos: The Ways Things Must Be......Page 98
Eight: Creation: The Ways Our World Was Made......Page 112
Nine: History: Limits of Science in Human Affairs......Page 132
Ten: What For? Or, What Price Knowledge?......Page 150
References......Page 162
Index......Page 172