The aim of this issue of the present journal is to collect a variety of points of view on the topics of experts and expertise, with a special focus on the following issues: - what experts are, and what the criteria are for individuating them; - how expert cognition differs from layperson cognition in specific domains; - whether and to what extent it is rational to trust experts, provided that we cannot assess their competence; - how it is correct to characterize experts’ disagreement, and what we are to do when experts disagree.

Lalumera, E., Tuzet, G. (a cura di). (2015). Experts and Expertise Interdisciplinary Issues. Edizioni ETS.

Experts and Expertise Interdisciplinary Issues

LALUMERA, ELISABETTA
Primo
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2015

Abstract

The aim of this issue of the present journal is to collect a variety of points of view on the topics of experts and expertise, with a special focus on the following issues: - what experts are, and what the criteria are for individuating them; - how expert cognition differs from layperson cognition in specific domains; - whether and to what extent it is rational to trust experts, provided that we cannot assess their competence; - how it is correct to characterize experts’ disagreement, and what we are to do when experts disagree.
Social epistemology, trust, experts, expertise, knowledge
English
2015
III-IV
28
255
Edizioni ETS
none
Lalumera, E., Tuzet, G. (a cura di). (2015). Experts and Expertise Interdisciplinary Issues. Edizioni ETS.
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