Sentences with phrase «in agnotology»

Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford, is one of the world's leading experts in agnotology, a neologism signifying the study of the cultural production of ignorance.

Coming back to «bogan», the big issue in agnotology is not ignorance in the ordinary sense of the term (people who don't know much about political issues, and don't care to learn — that is certainly part of the stereotypical bogan image, and may perhaps be descriptive of the actual demographic groups commonly associated with the term, though I don't know of any evidence of this).

In the latest volley, from Legates et al 2013, John Cook's «97 % consensus» survey has become the case study in agnotology.

Raising Climate Literacy through Addressing Misinformation: Case Studies in Agnotology - Based Learning.

In Agnotology: The Cultural Production of Ignorance, edited by Robert Proctor, and Londa Schiebinger, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Not exact matches

Agnotology has been defined in a variety of ways including «the study of ignorance and its cultural production» and «the study of how and why ignorance or misunderstanding exists.»

More recently, however, it has been posited that agnotology should be used in the teaching of climate change science.

So, in the spirit of adventure, I'm going to step away from my usual program of soft and fluffy topics like the bubbliness of bitcoins, the uselessness of navies and the agnotology of climate denial, and tackle the thorny question of running vs walking.

The new paper, itself being an agnotology, seems to be a good example of what they're trying to describe in their paper.

«Robert N. Proctor, who coined the term «agnotology» to describe the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, wrote in American Scientist that Merchants of Doubt is a detailed and artfully written book.

Fran Barlow, since the topic is on «the significance of agnotology» and given my limited knowledge on the subject matter and the fact I love my latte, maybe there is a link between the Tea Party, David H. Koch and the tea herbal smoke shops in Houston.

It's the context in which one can begin to make sense of what has been called agnotology or epistemic closure.

Leaving aside the class / cultural analysis implicit in the term «bogan», which I think is wrong, the argument is the same as I made in my post on agnotology, as his characterization of Rudd as a technocrat, not really at ease with the kind of politics that includes demands for authenticity and so on.

An interesting (and influential, at least in my case) paper on this topic is Agnotology as a teaching tool: Learning climate science by studying misinformation by Daniel Bedford, a professor at Weber State University, Utah.

The talk was titled Applying Agnotology Based Learning in a MOOC to Counter Climate Misconceptions.

In 2009, Dan Bedford coined the term «agnotology - based learning».

Recently, David Legates, Willie Soon and William Briggs published a paper in the journal Science & Education, Learning and Teaching Climate Science: The Perils of Consensus Knowledge Using Agnotology.

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In terms of the cultural component of agnotology, this may well be worth considering: