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Takashi Watanabe - Ignorance, Environmental Philosophy, and Academia, Inbunden

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Ignorance, Environmental Philosophy, and Academia

The Limits of Institutional Knowledge in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Av Takashi Watanabe

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This book argues that environmental crisis exposes limits of institutional knowledge. Institutions frame environmental problems through risk, uncertainty, evidence, and management. However, some forms of destruction cannot be identified as stable objects of knowledge, calculation, or responsibility. Watanabe calls this limit radical ignorance: not a lack of information, but the point at which conditions for identifying harm, assigning responsibility, and making justified decisions fail.Drawing on environmental philosophy, epistemology, phenomenology, systems theory, Buddhism, and ethics, Watanabe examines how academia acknowledges uncertainty yet excludes what cannot become an admissible object of knowledge. He reconsiders precaution, progress, responsibility, and ethical response, arguing that ignorance is not merely something to overcome but a limit requiring environmental ethics to rethink knowledge, action, and responsibility.
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Takashi Watanabe, PhD, is an independent scholar.

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“This book offers a searching interdisciplinary investigation of ignorance-not simply as a deficit of information, but as a constitutive condition of science, philosophy, institutions, and ethical life. Watanabe asks what forms of ethical response remain possible at the limit of institutional knowledge—and what it might mean to abandon the illusion that we can ever be definitively responsive to a world we can never fully know. The profound insights and practical cues for action that emerge from this engaging analysis make it indispensable not only for researchers and teachers, but also for policy makers wishing to escape the expedient – but potentially catastrophic – blinkers concerning the sufficiency of knowledge for action.”

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