The Dissenter cover image

#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know

The Dissenter

00:00

Deliberate Ignorance Is a Highly Adaptive Emotion

I was trying to imagine if there would if it would be relevant to try to understand if deliberate ignorance is something innate or culturally acquired yeah I mean I would think it's probably both. Disgust is a highly adaptive emotion and we need that emotion in order to protect us from things that are potentially toxic or infectious or whatever so I'm not looking at that I'm actually removing myself and that I don't want further information now. There is a clear evolutionary dimension to deliberate ignorance because disgust is clearly involved in motion but of course if you look Think about again the institutional forms of deliberate ignorance in law or in blind editioning or our own science.

Play episode from 40:49
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app