A History and Philosophy of Expertise

The Nature and Limits of Authority

Dr Jamie Carlin Watson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21767-6 (ISBN)

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In this comprehensive tour of the long history and philosophy of expertise, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Jamie Carlin Watson tackles the question of expertise and why we can be skeptical of what experts say, making a valuable contribution to contemporary philosophical debates on authority, testimony, disagreement and trust.

His review sketches out the ancient origins of the concept, discussing its early association with cunning, skill and authority and covering the sort of training that ancient thinkers believed was required for expertise. Watson looks at the evolution of the expert in the middle ages into a type of “genius” or “innate talent” , moving to the role of psychological research in 16th-century Germany, the influence of Darwin, the impact of behaviorism and its interest to computer scientists, and its transformation into the largely cognitive concept psychologists study today.

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

Preface: What Does an Expert Look Like?
1. Expertise and Its Discontents
2. English and Ancient Roots
3. Expertise from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
4. A Brief History of Expertise Studies
5. Epistemic Placement and Expert Testimony
6. Expert Authority
7. The Easy Recognition Problem for Expertise
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-350-21767-0 / 1350217670
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21767-6 / 9781350217676
Zustand	Neuware