The term agnoiology, conceived as a General Theory of Ignorance, was coined by James Frederick Ferrier in Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being (1854), a work to which we also owe the term epistemology. In what is commonly described as postmodernity, ignorance has once again become a central concern. It is therefore unsurprising that this ancient philosophical interest in analyzing “the unknown” or “the ignored” has recently resurfaced within sociology. Robert Proctor popularized the term agnotology among sociologists in the early 1990s, later consolidating it in his 2008 work.
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