Sociology
Agnotology. Sociology of Ignorance, ignorance of Sociology
The study of ignorance. The term ‘agnotology’ (a combination of ‘agnosia,’ meaning ‘lack of knowledge,’ and ‘logos,’ meaning ‘reasoning,’ ‘speech,’ or ‘discourse’) refers to the study of socially produced ignorance. This ignorance can be driven by human motivations, values, objectives, and interests, and it can be the subject of study, classification, and systematization.
Ignorant modernity
The concept of ‘ignorant modernity’ posits that the ignorance of the archetype of homo ignorans, as proposed by the author, would grow at the same rate as socially stored knowledge. This growth would occur concurrently with the necessary and obligatory trust in the social structure and intelligent society.
Subjectology, what we ignore and what we know about the social subject
The concept of the subject in political science and sociology is examined by the author, who relates the classical contractual theory of the conformation of political society as an implicit pact between individual subjects (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau) and sociological theories (Comte, Durkheim, Gabriel Tarde, Marx, Weber, Talcott Parsons, Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Mead, Goffman)…
THEORIES OF IGNORANCE (10 Books)
Books in this series include the author’s thoughts on ‘Being,’ ‘Ignorance,’ and ‘Difference’ from the perspectives of philosophy of science and sociology. The series comprises the following titles: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE The Ultimate Piece of the Universe: The Metaphysical Limits of Physics In this publication, the author examines the domain of elementary particle philosophy, which pertains…
Philosophy of Science
Ignoramus: Philosophical aphorisms and agnoiologisms
This book offers a systematic exploration of the limits of our philosophical and scientific understanding. Through a curated series of aphorisms and reflections, it maps the shifting boundaries between knowledge and ignorance.
Difference and Ignorance : The Eternal Return of Diversity
The secret of life is that it has no single secret—only an infinity of them, each irreducibly different.
Being and Ignorance: Philosophical Theories of ignorance (II)
This book examines whether it is possible to conceptualize “objective” being in a way that transcends the subject–object dichotomy, and whether ignorance might be understood not primarily as a feature of consciousness, but as something expressed in the behavior or dynamics of being itself.
Conscience and Ignorance: Philosophical Theories of Ignorance (I)
This two-volume book examines ignorance from complementary philosophical perspectives. The first volume focuses on epistemology, exploring ignorance in relation to knowledge and consciousness, while the second addresses ontology, analyzing ignorance in relation to being. Together, the two volumes approach ignorance as both an epistemological and an existential phenomenon.
Unthinkable World
The philosophical ignorance of Kant, Schopenhauer, Ortega, and Popper. Modernity has returned to Platonic and Socratic ideas that reality is not only what we perceive.
The Ultimate Piece of the Universe
The philosophy of elementary particles (the ultimate reality) through works of popular science published in recent years. Designed to help readers understand the latest discoveries and theories of modern astrophysics
Artificial Ignorance
We are entering an era in which artificial intelligence is reshaping not only what we know, but what we can no longer know — and this book explains why. ‘Artificial Ignorance’ offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding how AI produces, distributes, and governs ignorance in contemporary societies.
Inicio/Agustín Galán Machío 