Serendipity and Ignorance Studies. Arfini, S. In Copeland, S., Ross, W., & Sand, M., editors, Serendipity Science, of Serendipity Science: An Emerging Field and its Methods, pages 125–143. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2023. abstract bibtex Selene Arfini seeks to resolve a long-standing paradox and the seemingly exclusive dichotomy between knowledge and ignorance through the concept of serendipity. How can we find new knowledge when we do not know what are we looking for? This question is a brief version of Meno’s or the Learner’s Paradox, which still manages to be upsetting in contemporary philosophy, despite having been discussed since Plato’s times. Arfini believes that the paradox still upsets because we strongly connect the explicit act of searching to the event of finding, in the same way as we describe the ideas of knowledge and ignorance as opposite and unrelated. Arfini argues that these assumptions live on, thanks to a cluster of misconceptions that still envelop the ideas of discovery, which could be overcome by utilizing insights from recent studies in serendipity, and by reframing ignorance from a cognitive perspective.
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editor = {Copeland, Samantha and Ross, Wendy and Sand, Martin},
year = {2023},
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