Rethinking expertise:
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Main Author: Collins, Harry 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago The University of Chicago Press 2007
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Online Access:DE-521
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index
Introduction: Why expertise? -- The periodic table of expertises 1 : ubiquitous and specialist expertises -- The periodic table of expertises 2 : meta-expertises and meta-criteria -- Interactional expertise and embodiment -- Walking the talk: experiments on color blindness, perfect pitch, and gravitational waves -- New demarcation criteria -- Conclusion: science, the citizen, and the role of social science -- Appendix: waves of science studies
What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge?knowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some expertises are used to judge others, how laypeople judge between experts, and how credentials are used to evaluate them. Throughout, Collins and Evans ask an important question: how can the public make use of science and
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (159 Seiten)
ISBN:9780226113623
0226113620

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