Ignorance

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

Over the last century, scientific knowledge has been increasing at an exponential rate. Curiously, our ignorance as a whole does not similarly decrease. Scientists use facts to produce new questions - to speculate about what we do not know. As a result, we can say that scientific facts serve to access ignorance. Science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it. Ignorance is the critical driver of science. This course, in contrast with a more typical science class, has a focus on what we do not know. Students will gain an understanding of the scientific process by analyzing how scientists' approach what we do not know.