Expertise

Mirko Farina is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist. He is Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science and Head of Human Machine Interaction Lab at the Institute for Digital Economy and Artificial Systems, jointly established by Xiamen University and Lomonosov Moscow State University. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at Innopolis University.Andrea Lavazza is a moral philosopher and a neuroethicist. He is senior research fellow at the Centro Universitario Internazionale, Arezzo, Italy, and adjunct professor in Neuroethics at the University of Milan and at the University of Pavia, Italy, where he also teaches Philosophy of Mind. His main interests are at the intersection among ethics, epistemology, cognitive science, and new technologies. Lavazza has published over 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals and a dozen books both in Italian and in English.Duncan Pritchard is UC Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society at the University of California, Irvine. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Eidyn research center at the University of Edinburgh. His monographs include Epistemic Luck (OUP, 2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (OUP, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (OUP, 2012), Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (Princeton University Press, 2015), and Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2019). His academic distinctions include the award of the Philip Leverhulme Prize, election to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and delivering the annual Soochow Lectures in Philosophy.

This anthology considers epistemological, ethical, political, and other issues centering on expertise from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. This variety allows different articles to serve different courses without the entire book perhaps ever serving as the main text of any. A majority of the articles at least touch on issues of scientific expertise.

• Part 1: Introduction1: Duncan Pritchard, Mirko Farina, & Andrea Lavazza: ExpertisePart 2: Expertise and Trust2: Massimo Pigliucci: The Problem of Pseudoscience: Who Should We Trust When it Comes to Fringe Beliefs?3: Gloria Origgi: Authority, Legitimacy and the Expert-Layman Problem4: Daniel DeNicola: Institutionalized Expertise: Trust, Rejection, and IgnorancePart 3: Situated and Group Expertise5: Lisa Bortolotti, Michael Larkin, and Michele Lim: Expertise as Perspectives in Dialogue6: John Sutton: Affective, Cognitive, and Ecological Components of Joint Expertise in Collaborative Embodied SkillsPart 4: Expertise and Public Policy7: Rivkah Hatchwell and David Papineau: Expert Judgement Without Values: Credences not Inductive Risks8: Michela Massimi: From the Right to Science as an Epistemic-Cultural Human Right to the Right to Expertise9: Harry Collins: Studies of Expertise and Experience'Part 5: Expertise and Virtue10: Linda Zagzebski: Humility for Experts11: Andrea Lavazza and Mirko Farina: 1. Expertise-in-Action: The Importance of Intellectual and Moral Virtue(s) to Experts' Epistemic Authority'Part 6: Expertise About Value12: Dominic McIver Lopes: Experts in Aesthetic Value Practices13: Emma Gordon: Moral Expertise and Socratic AIPart 7: New Directions14: Veli Mitova: Decolonising Experts15: Duncan Pritchard: Public Expertise and Ignorance