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During his lecture, Dr. DeMartino explored the important question: “Can we ever know enough to be confident we are doing the right thing?” He noted that social scientists, especially economists, are trained to hold a progressive view of knowledge, where science improves over time and the domain of the unknown steadily shrinks. But, Dr. DeMartino argued, intuition is dangerously incorrect. Learning involves forgetting lessons we need to remember. And new knowledge expands the domain of irreparable ignorance. Ultimately, the challenge is to discover how to act ethically in a world we can’t ever know and can’t ever control.
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