Is There Anything Special About the Ignorance Involved in Big Data Practices?. Martínez-Ordaz, M. Philosophical Studies Series, 143:113–140, 2022. doi abstract bibtex Here, I address the question of whether there anything special about the ignorance involved in big data practices. I submit that the ignorance that emerges when using big data in the empirical sciences is ignorance of theoretical structure with reliable consequences and I explain how this ignorance relates to different epistemic achievements such as knowledge and understanding. I illustrate this with a case study from observational cosmology. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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abstract = {Here, I address the question of whether there anything special about the ignorance involved in big data practices. I submit that the ignorance that emerges when using big data in the empirical sciences is ignorance of theoretical structure with reliable consequences and I explain how this ignorance relates to different epistemic achievements such as knowledge and understanding. I illustrate this with a case study from observational cosmology. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
language = {English},
journal = {Philosophical Studies Series},
author = {Martínez-Ordaz, M.R.},
year = {2022},
keywords = {Bullet cluster, Epistemic opacity, Epistemology of big data, Ignorance, Ignorance of theoretical structure, Modal understanding},
pages = {113--140},
}
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