How Do We Become Ignorant? Affording Ignorance Through Epistemic Actions. Arfini, S. In Arfini, S. & Magnani, L., editors, Embodied, Extended, Ignorant Minds: New Studies on the Nature of Not-Knowing, of Synthese Library, pages 209–230. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022. ![How Do We Become Ignorant? Affording Ignorance Through Epistemic Actions [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Which cognitive processes allow us to become ignorant of something? In this chapter, I will discuss “to-ignorance processes” – which I will describe as processes that allow people to shift from a state of partial knowledge or unaware ignorance to another state of ignorance (of which they could be aware or not). I will argue that these processes affect how cognitive agents encounter new information and may in part explain some pressing socio-epistemological issues, such as the fake news problem. In the first section, I will describe some to-ignorance processes that commonly occur in people’s ordinary life. In the following section, I will focus on how people can become misinformed online by discussing what both “true” and “fake” news have in common, which is the fact that they present action-suggesting qualities to users, or affordances. The third section will be dedicated to how we should describe these affordances and which kinds of actions they offer to users online. In the fourth section, I will specifically discuss the action-based relations between agents and the information offered online and I will argue that some epistemic actions imply the explicit or implicit engagement to one’s ignorance. Finally, in the fifth section, I will return to the idea that to-ignorance processes affect how agents encounter information and I will argue that we should address and study to-ignorance processes to set up and manage rich environments in which people should have more opportunities to become curious and surprised than misinformed.
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address = {Cham},
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title = {How {Do} {We} {Become} {Ignorant}? {Affording} {Ignorance} {Through} {Epistemic} {Actions}},
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abstract = {Which cognitive processes allow us to become ignorant of something? In this chapter, I will discuss “to-ignorance processes” – which I will describe as processes that allow people to shift from a state of partial knowledge or unaware ignorance to another state of ignorance (of which they could be aware or not). I will argue that these processes affect how cognitive agents encounter new information and may in part explain some pressing socio-epistemological issues, such as the fake news problem. In the first section, I will describe some to-ignorance processes that commonly occur in people’s ordinary life. In the following section, I will focus on how people can become misinformed online by discussing what both “true” and “fake” news have in common, which is the fact that they present action-suggesting qualities to users, or affordances. The third section will be dedicated to how we should describe these affordances and which kinds of actions they offer to users online. In the fourth section, I will specifically discuss the action-based relations between agents and the information offered online and I will argue that some epistemic actions imply the explicit or implicit engagement to one’s ignorance. Finally, in the fifth section, I will return to the idea that to-ignorance processes affect how agents encounter information and I will argue that we should address and study to-ignorance processes to set up and manage rich environments in which people should have more opportunities to become curious and surprised than misinformed.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2023-08-29},
booktitle = {Embodied, {Extended}, {Ignorant} {Minds}: {New} {Studies} on the {Nature} of {Not}-{Knowing}},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
author = {Arfini, Selene},
editor = {Arfini, Selene and Magnani, Lorenzo},
year = {2022},
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keywords = {Affordance, Epistemic Action, Fake News, Ignorance Processes, OA, PRINTED (Fonds papier), Pragmatic Action},
pages = {209--230},
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