@incollection{fallis_is_2016,
	title = {Is {Making} {People} {Ignorant} as {Bad} as {Deceiving} {Them}?},
	isbn = {978-1-315-67124-6},
	abstract = {A substantial amount of philosophical work has been done on what ignorance is-is it simply the lack of a true belief? Or is ignorance the absence of 
knowledge? (see Peels 2010). There has been even more philosophical work 
on the ethics of acting out of ignorance-can ignorance excuse taking an 
action that has bad consequences? And, if so, under what circumstances can 
it provide such an excuse? (see Peels 2014). But as Robert Proctor suggests, 
there has not been much philosophical work on what it is to make someone 
ignorant. (The term ‘making someone ignorant’ might suggest that this per­
son was not ignorant beforehand. However, following Proctor, I also mean 
to include cases where someone acts to simply maintain someone else in a 
state of ignorance that she is already in. In other words, I use the term ‘making someone ignorant’ here to refer to cases that might also be described as 
cases of simply ‘keeping someone ignorant.’)One way to make someone ignorant about a particular topic is to inten­
tionally cause her to have a false belief. In other words, you might deceive 
her. For instance, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to 
Congress (“Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hun­
dreds of millions, of Americans?” “No sir.”) in order to keep us ignorant 
about the extent to which our personal communications are under govern­
ment surveillance (see Fallis 2015a, p.335). Clapper intended to put us into 
a state of what Rik Peels (2014, p.485) calls disbelieving ignorance. That 
is, he intended to make us ignorant of one thing by getting us to believe the 
opposite.},
	booktitle = {Perspectives on {Ignorance} from {Moral} and {Social} {Philosophy}},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	author = {Fallis, Don},
	editor = {Peels, Rik},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Num Pages: 14},
	keywords = {Ignorance in history and philosophy of science and technology - general information, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
}

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