Radical Evaluative Ignorance. Peterson, M. In Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy. Routledge, 2016. Num Pages: 22
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If you cannot figure out whether Kandinsky’s Squares with Concentric Circles is beautiful or ugly, or if you don’t know whether euthanasia could ever be morally permissible, then your ignorance is evaluative rather than factual. Evaluative ignorance is either internal, external, or radical. Internal evaluative ignorance arises if you are ignorant of your own evaluative atti­ tudes, such as your preferences or desires. It is widely agreed that we can be ignorant of our future and past evaluative attitudes, but not everyone believes we can be ignorant of our present ones.1 I shall not discuss internal evaluative ignorance here.
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	title = {Radical {Evaluative} {Ignorance}},
	isbn = {978-1-315-67124-6},
	abstract = {If you cannot figure out whether Kandinsky’s Squares with Concentric Circles is beautiful or ugly, or if you don’t know whether euthanasia could 
ever be morally permissible, then your ignorance is evaluative rather than 
factual. Evaluative ignorance is either internal, external, or radical. Internal 
evaluative ignorance arises if you are ignorant of your own evaluative atti­
tudes, such as your preferences or desires. It is widely agreed that we can 
be ignorant of our future and past evaluative attitudes, but not everyone 
believes we can be ignorant of our present ones.1 I shall not discuss internal 
evaluative ignorance here.},
	booktitle = {Perspectives on {Ignorance} from {Moral} and {Social} {Philosophy}},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	author = {Peterson, Martin},
	editor = {Peels, Rik},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Num Pages: 22},
	keywords = {Ignorance in history and philosophy of science and technology - general information, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
}

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