Thomas Grundmann

Peter Brössel

Anna-Maria Asunta Eder

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts. It features original essays from leading epistemologists on this timely topic. Modern societies benefit significantly from a certain kind of epistemic division of labor: they outsource much of their epistemic work to well-trained cognitive experts. However, due to their degree of specialization, cognitive sophistication, and highly privileged status, cognitive experts tend to become alienated from laypeople. This leads to what one may call the paradox of experts: as experts become more competent, specialized, and sophisticated, the harder it will be for laypeople to identify and trust experts. The chapters in this volume explore the epistemology of expert judgment across several core themes and crucial questions: Analysis of Experts: What does it take to be a cognitive expert? Epistemic Authority: How much should we concede experts over laypeople? The Social Roles of Experts: What role do experts play in society, and what role should they play? Challenges: What problems arise from experts’ epistemic authority and societal role? The Epistemology of Experts is an essential resource for scholars and advanced students working in epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge.

New Essays

The Epistemology of Experts

Joachim Horvath

Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The ensuing experimental results, such as the cultural relativity of certain philosophical intuitions, has engaged – and at times infuriated – many more traditionally minded "armchair" philosophers since then. In this volume, the metaphilosophical reflection on experimental philosophy is brought yet another step forward by engaging some of its most renowned proponents and critics in a lively and controversial debate. In addition to that, the volume also contains original experimental research on personal identity and philosophical temperament, as well as state-of-the-art essays on central metaphilosophical issues, like thought experiments, the nature of intuitions, or the status of philosophical expertise. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Psychology.

Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

Was ist Wahrheit? Seit Anbeginn der Philosophiegeschichte wird um dieses Thema gestritten, und die heutige Debatte um "alternative facts" befeuert diese Diskussion erneut. Thomas Grundmann hat eine ebenso kurze wie klare Einführung in dieses Thema verfasst: Er erklärt die grundlegenden Merkmale der Wahrheit, stellt die wichtigsten Wahrheitstheorien vor und diskutiert sie. Er schreibt: "Ich bin zutiefst davon überzeugt, dass unsere Einstellung zur Wahrheit eine eminent politische Bedeutung hat und auch einen tieferen Wert für unser menschliches Leben besitzt. Warum das so ist, wird in dieser Einleitung erklärt." E-Book mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe: Buch und E-Book können parallel benutzt werden.

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Philosophische Wahrheitstheorien

Sven Bernecker

Amy K. Flowerree

Fake news is an important topic of current social concern. This book is the first sustained inquiry into the epistemology of fake news. The chapters examine the meaning of the term 'fake news', discuss practices that generate or promote fake news, and investigate potential therapies for the problems it presents.

Thomas Grundmann

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