Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction

Dr Jamie Carlin Watson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-08385-1 (ISBN)

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What does it mean to be an expert? What sort of authority do experts really have? And what role should they play in today's society?

Addressing why ever larger segments of society are skeptical of what experts say, Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction reviews contemporary philosophical debates and introduces what an account of expertise needs to accomplish in order to be believed. Drawing on research from philosophers and sociologists, chapters explore widely held accounts of expertise and uncover their limitations, outlining a set of conceptual criteria a successful account of expertise should meet.

By providing suggestions for how a philosophy of expertise can inform practical disciplines such as politics, religion, and applied ethics, this timely introduction to a topic of pressing importance reveals what philosophical thinking about expertise can contribute to growing concerns about experts in the 21st century.

Jamie Carlin Watson is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA.

1. Introduction
2. What Experts Do
3. Building a Philosophy of Expertise
4. Truth-tracking Accounts
5. Performance-tracking Accounts
6. The Epistemic Facility Account
7. Expertise and Disagreement
8. The Limits of Expertise
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	1-350-08385-2 / 1350083852
ISBN-13	978-1-350-08385-1 / 9781350083851
Zustand	Neuware