The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools to manage scientific research. Focusing on the mechanisms of ignorance production, the recent literature in agnotology has been a fruitful approach for understanding the social and epistemological consequences th...

In this article I examine a negotiating strategy observed in telephone calls made by (prospective) clients to the Latin American call centre operation of multinational company specialised holiday time-shares. Through strategy, which have termed ‘fabricated ignorance’, show an unawareness how system works order gain access information, services, or benefits that they are not, theory, entitled to...

The central argument of the paper is that knowledge management practices fail to adequately address the complexities of organizational ignorance. The paper begins with a brief overview of knowledge management and an account of how this management technique can lead to the neglect of the unknown as well as the creation of ignorance. The nature of ignorance and its relation to knowledge is then c...

In this paper, the possibility of modeling the phenomenon “pluralistic ignorance” from social psychology, using epistemic/doxastic logic, is investigated. It is shown that the straightforward formalization of pluralistic ignorance does not capture the phenomenon completely. What is needed in addition is an assumption about the interplay between different agents’ beliefs or an assumption about h...

“What should we think about researchers who use the wrong techniques (either wilfully or in ignorance), use the right techniques wrongly, misinterpret their results, report their results selectively, cite the literature selectively, and draw unjustified conclusions? We should be appalled. Yet numerous studies of the medical literature, in both general and specialist journals, have shown that al...