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| Title: |
Expertise and public ignorance |
| Author: |
Selinger, Evan M. |
| Appeared in: |
Critical review |
| Paging: | Volume 15 (2003) nr. 3-4 pages 375-386 |
| Year: |
2003 |
| Contents: |
Recent sociological/philosophical treatments of expertise, best represented by the work of Steve Fuller, attempt to (1) reduce displays of expertise to sophistic exercises of discretionary power, and (2) refute the claim that because laypeople are epistemically inferior to experts, it is rational to defer to an expert's opinion rather than making up one's own mind. But upon inspection, Fuller fails to provide reasonable grounds for liberating laypeople from the tyranny of cognitive authoritarianism. Rather, he presents a patronizing description of the expert-lay relation, one that actually makes the public seem more ignorant than is warranted. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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