There’s a long-standing notion that ostriches like to “bury” their heads in the sand when they see something dangerous approaching. Supposedly, the logic behind this is that if they can’t see the ...

A dear friend’s TWINS (yes all caps) just entered a prestigious New England university. They are bright, driven, focused students and they’ll do well. They’d better, because it will cost my friend ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the current debate there are two epistemological approaches to the definition of ignorance: the Standard View and the New View. The former ...

Knowledge can be a source of power and pleasure, but it also can be unsettling, humiliating, even terrifying. In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, ...