{"id":68758,"date":"2023-06-26T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=68758"},"modified":"2023-06-26T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:05:42","slug":"the-other-side-of-words-agnotology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/the-other-side-of-words-agnotology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe other side of words\u201d: Agnotology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Western sciences have little grasped the issue of ignorance despite the fact that,\u00a0in the words of Karl Popper<\/a>\u00a0, “our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance is necessarily infinite”, with important consequences for our lives. .<\/p>\n

This is observed by Robert N. Proctor in the introduction to a\u00a0collective work on agnotology<\/a>\u00a0published in 2008. This science historian from Stanford University has worked to fill this gap.\u00a0He then proposed the term \u201cagnotology\u201d, from the Greek\u00a0agn\u00f4sis<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cnot knowing\u201d), which refers to the study of ignorance and its \u201cproduction\u201d.\u00a0This concept then benefits from a\u00a0growing interest in the human and social sciences<\/a>\u00a0and some authors even evoke a true science of ignorance, making it possible to theorize the break with certainties and the production of unknown knowledge.<\/p>\n

This ignorance can have different origins.\u00a0First of all, there are\u00a0factors of which the researcher is not aware<\/a>\u00a0, even vis-\u00e0-vis his own research topic.\u00a0Then, these same factors may not have been, or may not be, exploited during the process and scientific facts may well be ignored as added after the fact.\u00a0Finally, it is important to point out that\u00a0all research methods have their own limitations<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

As a result, the studies and even the validated productions can sometimes be the subject of subsequent reassessments and be re-examined by the specialists.\u00a0Conversely, it is possible that a researcher works his entire career on the same theme only to ultimately question all of his reflections or open his work to unexplained or even inexplicable areas.\u00a0Therefore, it is knowledge that \u201cis\u00a0rendered unusable and can no longer serve as a premise<\/a>\u00a0for decisions or other investigations\u201d.<\/p>\n

From the scientific point of view, for the researcher,\u00a0agnotology<\/a>\u00a0constitutes a difficult and not very widespread exercise: it is more complex for a specialist to present and describe what he does not know than to deal with knowledge that he masters.\u00a0Paradoxically, this science materializes regularly and in different forms in the field of research with new knowledge which is produced and which comes to replace the oldest or new scientific writings which come to question, to see make obsolete, their predecessors .<\/p>\n

Thus, the incorporation of this concept in a reflection makes it possible to bring a new look at the knowledge produced or analyzed in a scientific research, similar to an “antiepistemology”.\u00a0Where epistemology makes it possible to reaffirm or even construct new knowledge, anti-epistemology\u00a0\u201casks how knowledge can be covered up and obscured\u201d<\/a>\u00a0, questioning necessary in any theorization and\/or production of scholarly knowledge.<\/p>\n

But ignorance\u00a0analyzes knowledge<\/a>\u00a0in a double dimension: what do we not know?\u00a0Why don’t we have access to this knowledge?\u00a0This doubt and the questioning of the knowledge generated by agnotology make it possible to (re)launch dialogues and modify behaviors.\u00a0Indeed, if for the researcher to include agnotology amounts to questioning the gray areas of his work, which is therefore part of an “honest” approach with regard to his reflections and productions, this approach is also found in daily.<\/p>\n

A telling example is that of misinformation.\u00a0In addition to the possible sources of agnotology, mentioned above, it is possible that the absence of information is intentional.\u00a0This retention of knowledge is also found in several areas such as, for example, the tobacco industry.\u00a0Many companies have financed studies with the aim of proving the influence of factors other than cigarette smoking on the health of individuals.\u00a0It is therefore not openly a lie but rather research to divert attention with the idea of \u200b\u200binfluencing the population: we then speak of\u00a0strategic ignorance<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

In addition, misinformation has changed with the development of social networks where each individual can freely share their knowledge or ideas on the themes of their choice.\u00a0Mathias Girel then evokes\u00a0several terms allowing to qualify the situations encountered on these platforms<\/a>\u00a0between \u201cmisinformation\u201d, to evoke unintentional false information and \u201cmisinformation\u201d for false information intended to deliberately harm others.<\/p>\n

In all cases, agnotology reminds us of the need to maintain a critical attitude and an actor’s posture vis-\u00e0-vis the information that reaches us.\u00a0The first step remains to check the sources, including the legitimacy of the author to deal with the theme addressed.\u00a0Also, the ubiquitous ignorance, due to the different modalities that we have mentioned, makes it possible to keep in mind that gray areas remain in the exchanges that we have during the day as well as in the research work. which we may be interested.<\/p>\n

Author Bios:<\/strong> Mary Meyer is a PhD student in Education and Training Sciences and Dominique Kern is a University Professor, PhD Education and Training Sciences both at the University of Haute-Alsace (UHA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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