1st Edition
Questioning Experts and Expertise
1. Introduction: Ubiquitous Questions about Experts and Society
Maria Baghramian and Carlo Martini
2. Believing to Belong: Addressing the Novice- Expert Problem in Polarized Scientific Communication
Helen De Cruz
3. The Rightful Place of Expertise
Reiner Grundmann
4. Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy
Julian Reiss
5. Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries about Expertise
Cathrine Holst and Anders Molander
6. Towards a Balanced Account of Expertise
Christian Quast
7. Expertise, Relevance and Types of Knowledge
Pierluigi Barrotta and Eleonora Montuschi
8. Are Experts Right or are They Members of Expert Groups?
Harry Collins
9. What Experts Could Not Be
Jamie Carlin Watson
10. For A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority: A Collective Approach
Michel Croce
11. Can Novices Trust Themselves to Choose Trustworthy Experts? Reasons for (Reserved) Optimism
Johnny Brennan
12. Why the Fence Is the Seat of Reason When Experts Disagree
Martin Hinton
13. Values and Objectivity in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Julie Jebeile
Biography
Maria Baghramian is Full Professor of American Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. She was a Principal Investigator of the Irish Research Council project ‘When Experts Disagree’ (WEXD) and currently coordinates the Horizon 2020 EU project ‘Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action’ (PEriTiA). She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Carlo Martini is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Vita- Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. He has published extensively on the epistemology of expertise. He is Local Principal Investigator for the Horizon 2020 project ‘Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action’ (PEriTiA) and the Italian Ministry of Research and Education project ‘From Models to Decisions’.
