Description: This is a collective study of philosophical questions to do with experts and expertise, such as: What is an expert? Who decides who the experts are? Should we always defer to experts? How should expertise inform public policy? What happens when the experts disagree? Must experts be unbiased? Does it matter what the source of the expertise is?
Review Quotes: "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." -- B. T. Hutchinson, CHOICE