In this comprehensive tour of the long history and philosophy of
expertise, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Jamie Carlin
Watson tackles the question of expertise and why we can be
skeptical of what experts say, making a valuable contribution to
contemporary philosophical debates on authority, testimony,
disagreement and trust. His review sketches out the ancient origins
of the concept, discussing its early association with cunning,
skill and authority and covering the sort of training that ancient
thinkers believed was required for expertise. Watson looks at the
evolution of the expert in the middle ages into a type of
“genius” or “innate talent” , moving to the role of
psychological research in 16th-century Germany, the influence of
Darwin, the impact of behaviorism and its interest to computer
scientists, and its transformation into the largely cognitive
concept psychologists study today.
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