Epistemologias da ignorância e ignorância sistematicamente construída

• Autor(a) principal: Saraiva, João Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Peri
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.sites.ufsc.br/index.php/peri/article/view/5849
• topic: Epistemologies of ignorance; Epistemic injustice; Systematically constructed ignorance; Willfull ignorance; Social epistemology; Epistemologias da ignorância; Injustiça epistêmica; Ignorância sistematicamente construída; Ignorância motivada; Epistemologia social

The main goal of this paper is to argue in favor of a different kind of ignorance that can’t be described as a mere absence of an epistemic good like true belief or knowledge. To fulfill this goal, the paper will be sectioned in three parts. The first section will draw attention to the main definitions of ignorance drawn upon the current literature on epistemologies of ignorance, ignorance as absence of true belief and ignorance as absence of knowledge. In the next section, two different kinds of ignorance will be explored, ignorance as a result of epistemic injustice, and white ignorance. In the third section, it will be argued that to take ignorance as a mere absence is not enough to understand the subject, since there are cases of ignorance like shown in section two, that are systematically constructed, thus not accidental.