Questioning Experts and Expertise
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Questioning Experts and Expertise
About this book
The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world. Scientific disinformation is rife, and expertise is badly needed to tackle highly complex social problems.
This book brings together philosophers, sociologists and policy experts to discuss the nature, scope and limitations of expert advice in policy decisions. The chapters collected here address some of the most fundamental questions in the debate on the role of experts. They explore, among others, the definitions of expertise, the role of experts in modern democracies, the dilemma of choosing between equally competent and qualified experts who cannot agree, the objectivity of expert judgements, the relationship between experts and novices in polarised social settings and the conditions on the trustworthiness of experts. These explorations, by some of the best- known academics working in the field, highlight the complexities of the questions they address but also lay down a road map for addressing them.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Ubiquitous Questions about Experts and Society
- 2 Believing to Belong: Addressing the Novice-Expert Problem in Polarized Scientific Communication
- 3 The Rightful Place of Expertise
- 4 Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy
- 5 Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries about Expertise
- 6 Towards a Balanced Account of Expertise
- 7 Expertise, Relevance and Types of Knowledge
- 8 Are Experts Right or are They Members of Expert Groups?
- 9 What Experts Could Not Be
- 10 For A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority: A Collective Approach
- 11 Can Novices Trust Themselves to Choose Trustworthy Experts? Reasons for (Reserved) Optimism
- 12 Why the Fence Is the Seat of Reason When Experts Disagree
- 13 Values and Objectivity in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Index