Embodied, Extended, Ignorant Minds [electronic resource] : New Studies on the Nature of Not-Knowing / edited by Selene Arfini, Lorenzo Magnani.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Externalist Perspectives on Ignorance and Cognition (Selene Arfini and Lorenzo Magnani) -- Chapter 2. Relational Ignorance (Samantha Copeland) -- Chapter 3. Creative Ignorance (Wendy Ross) -- Chapter 4. Extended Ignorance (Duncan Pritchard) -- Chapter 5. Mindshaping, Racist Habits, and White Ignorance (Michelle Maiese) -- Chapter 6. Ignorance and (Im)Possibility (Vlad Glāveanu) -- Chapter 7. Mind Invasion through Cognitive Integration: Facebook and the Exploita-tion of Users' Ignorance (Giacomo Figà-Talamanca and Elisabeth Hunting) -- Chapter 8. Institutions as Cognitive Niches: A Dynamics of Knowledge and Ignorance (Konrad Werner) -- Chapter 9. How Do We Think about the Unknown? The Self-Awareness of Ignorance as a Tool for Managing the Anguish of Not Knowing (Alger Sans Pinillos and Lorenzo Magnani) -- Chapter 10. How Do We Become Ignorant? Affording Ignorance Through Epistemic Actions (Selene Arfini).

This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different phenomena and subjects of research, from known events in history and sociology of science to the investigation of ordinary reasoning and cognitive processing. Nonetheless, although interested scholars have discussed ignorance phenomena and their impact on cognition, most of them have only adopted an internalist perspective to approach this theme. Meanwhile, even though externalist perspectives on cognition flourished in recent literature, authors have paid little attention to the emerging field of ignorance studies. Ignorance has been generally left out from the inquiries on the extension of cognitive states, cognitive processes, and predictive reasoning. Thus, in this volume, we seek to merge the two growing areas of research and to fill this research gap fruitfully. By addressing the uncomfortable themes that pertain to ignorance and related phenomena through an externalist perspective, this book aims to provide much food for thoughts to cognitive scientists and philosophers alike, enriching the current range and reach of both ignorance studies and externalist approaches to cognition.