Knowledge and Ignorance: Essays on Lights and Shadows

by Folke Dovring

Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. Some topics examined in these essays are problems with our ways of knowing and the impact of emotion on objectivity. He argues that reality consists of designs--of things and processes. While most designs we might think of cannot exist, those that can exist add up to a tool box of creation which contains the detailed laws of nature, many of them synergisms. Reality must conform to this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275961397
• ISBN13: 9780275961398
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"