technology of humility

is a method to accommodate scientific knowledge and uncertainty. These technologies compel us to reflect us the sources of ambiguity, indeterminacy and complexity. Humility instructs us to think harder about how to reframe problems so that their ethical dimensions are brought to light..

We need disciplined methods to accommodate scientific knowledge and conditions of irredeemable uncertainty. Let us call these technologies of humility. These technologies compel us to reflect us the sources of ambiguity, indeterminacy and complexity. Humility instructs us to think harder about how to reframe problems so that their ethical dimensions are brought to light., which new facts to seek and when to resist asking science for clarifications. Humility directs us to alleviate known causes of people's vulnerability to harm, to pay attention to the distribution of risks and benefits, and to reflect on the social factors that promote or discourage learning. . . . It is a prescription to supplement science with the analysis of those aspects of the human condition that science cannot illuminate. It is a call for policy analysts and policy-makers to re-engage with the moral foundations for acting in the face of inevitable scientific uncertainty. (Jasanoff 2007: 33)

technology of humility, n.Definitions

technology of humility