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A History and Philosophy of Expertise - The Nature and Limits of Authority (Hardcover)
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A History and Philosophy of Expertise - The Nature and Limits of Authority (Hardcover)
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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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