Agnotology: The History of Knowledge and Ignorance
HISTSCI 2993
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Description
Historians of science have traditionally been concerned with the production of scientific knowledge, but in recent years have turned their attention to the production of ignorance. This course focuses on the production of ignorance as a social, political, cultural, economic and epistemic question, with attention both to techniques of deliberate ignorance production, and to the inadvertent and often uncontested production of ignorance that arises from accepted research practices and from the conditions that shape the direction and forms of scientific inquiry.
Course Notes
Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates in history of science, and to others, with instructor’s permission.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
History of Science
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
