Ignorance

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Ignorance

What We Do Not Know, Cannot Know, Must Not Know, and Refuse to Know

Szpiro, George G.

Columbia University Press

04/2026

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9780231221658

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Preface
Introduction
Part I. Do Not Know
1. Do Aliens Visit Us? Flying Saucers and Other UFOs
2. Knowledge Under Seal: Les Plis Cachetes
3. A Mathematical Riddle: The Riemann Hypothesis
4. Restricted Access: Top Secret vs. Freedom of Information
5. Ignoramus et Ignorabimus: A Controversy in Germany
6. Will the Universe Expand Forever? Big Crunch, Big Bounce, Big Rip, or Big Chill
7. Ignorantia Legis Non Excusat: Presumed to Know
8. What Is Nothing? Horror vacui
9. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Gettier's Problem
10. Hard but Easy: P vs. NP
11. Ignoring One's Own Assessment: Ellsberg's Paradox
12. It's There but Can't Be Seen: Dark Matter
13. Unskilled and Unaware of It: The Dunning-Kruger Effect
14. The Hard Problem and the Easy Problem: Understanding Consciousness
15. Uncharted Depths: Aqua Incognita
Part II. Cannot Know
16. On Learned Ignorance: Cardinal Nicolas de Cusa
17. Where and How Fast? The Uncertainty Principle
18. Half Zeros, Half Ones: Random Numbers
19. Satisfice, Don't Optimize: Bounded Rationality
20. Don't Even Ask: Meno's Paradox
21. Engaging in Risky Behavior: Moral Hazard
22. Nonlinearities Have Consequences: Chaos Theory
23. The Sixth Sense in a Post-Truth World: Alternative Facts and Fake News
24. How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Fractal Dimensions
25. Is the Solar System Stable? KAM Theory
26. Entering Infinite Loops: The Turing Halting Problem
27. True but Not Provable: Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems
28. Storing Music, Photos, Video, and Text: Algorithmic Complexity
29. Too Far Away: The Light Cone
30. Is Your Red My Blue? Qualia
Part III. Must Not Know
31. Preventing Last Rites: Professor Bernhardi
32. The Veil of Ignorance: John Rawls's Theory of Justice
33. Show and (Don't) Tell: Zero Knowledge Proofs
34. Limited Liability: The Corporate Veil
35. Move to Strike: Unringing the Bell
36. Hot Stock Tips: Insider Trading
37. Carnal Knowledge: Adam and Eve
38. Ignore Irrelevant Alternatives: The Theory of Games
39. Blind and Double Blind: The Placebo Effect
40. Polls Are Like Perfume: The Bandwagon Effect
41. Don't Talk About Money: Compensation Secrecy
42. Cursed Be He: Spinoza's Theses
43. Apply for a Patent or Keep a Secret? Intellectual Property
44. Don't Throw Good Money After Bad: The Sunk Cost Fallacy
45. Kabbalah: Only Men Over Forty
Part IV. Refuse to Know
46. Murder, Suicide, or the Gods' Wrath? The Square Root of 2
47. "Eppur si muove!" The Trial of Galileo
48. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: A Mineral Consisting of Pure Carbon
49. The Silent Epidemic of Misunderstandings: Pluralistic Ignorance
50. "Non, je ne regrette rien": Anticipated Regret
51. Ill-Informed but Harmless? Flat-Earthers
52. Don't Even Talk About It: Critical Race Theory
53. Oldies Prefer Ignorance: Twenty-Somethings vs. Over-Eighties
54. Protecting the Second Amendment: The Dickey and Tiahart Amendments
55. Ignoring High-Risk Events: Disaster Insurance
56. Legislating Mathematical Truth: ? = 3.2?
57. To Test or Not to Test? Prostate-Specific Antigens
58. Beware: Violence Ahead! Trigger Warning
59. Don't Tell Me You Did It: Plausible Deniability
60. Experts, Shmexperts: Denial of Expertise, Dismissal of Elites
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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