20.500.12556/RUP-21361 Knowledge avoidance – consistency, taxonomy, and etiology Often, our reluctance to accept new ideas is the obstacle to advancing knowledge. This reluctance also plays an important role in unethical behavior. Yet, despite being widely recognized as a major factor in moral misconduct across the ethical spectrum, knowledge avoidance is plagued by a lack of clarity about the precise nature and characteristics of the epistemic phenomena it encompasses. First, these phenomena appear to be contradictory, since avoidance usually requires knowledge of what is to be avoided, and thus avoidance of knowledge seems impossible. Second, knowledge avoidance seems to be an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of different doxastic states. And third, the reasons and motivations for knowledge avoidance seem to encompass biological factors as well as ontological and psychological aspects. Drawing on both traditional and contemporary philosophical literature, the present paper aims to shed light on all these faces of knowledge avoidance by exploring problems related to its consistency, taxonomy, and etiology. The essay concludes with an examination of the moral dimensions of these phenomena. It explores the problem of responsibility and culpability, and even the potential benefits of knowledge avoidance. knowledge avoidance willful ignorance denialism biased belief formation culpability izogibanje vednosti hotena nevednost zanikanje pristransko oblikovanje prepričanj krivdnost true false true Angleški jezik Hrvaški jezik Neznano 2025-06-16 09:13:15 2025-06-16 09:13:17 2025-06-17 03:03:42 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. [115]-138 No. Vol. 40 2025 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-06-11 17.034 1848-2317 10.21464/sp40107 239412227 https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/clanak/480257 1 4e7be7dd-4a81-11f0-bc14-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=31063 RAZ_Grusovnik_Tomaz_2025.pdf RAZ_Grusovnik_Tomaz_2025.pdf 1 D077FE1D54C668120FA810EDCD0A26F2 0f1ea13717c6d5ffbdcfddd60d22368abf14a08771a86c3cd36d1d6acddd785c 7dc74770-4a81-11f0-bc14-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=31064 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0