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No "Real" Experts: Unexpected Agreement Over Disagreement in STS and Philosophy of Science (2018)

Lundgren, Jakob (Author)

Perspectives on Science
Volume: 26
Issue: 6
Pages: 722-735

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/712955

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Science studies, as a discipline Reason Philosophy of science Technoscience; science and technology studies Expertise Elga, Adam Jasanoff, Sheila

The aim of this paper is to discuss a parallel in the thinking of STS scholar Sheila Jasanoff and philosopher Adam Elga. Although both subscribe to the norms of their respective discipline—Elga using a priori conceptual analysis and Jasanoff conducting empirical case studies—they both reason in similar ways regarding epistemic hierarchy in political controversy. They argue that controversial questions are enmeshed in such a way with political framework that there can be no purely epistemic evaluation of expertise. This conclusion is unexpected for a parallel between STS and philosophy of science since it is not based on a normative theory of expertise. While there has been collaboration between the two ﬁelds in the wake of the so-called "third wave" movement in science studies, the parallel discussed in this paper opens up the potential for collaborative research based on a skeptical view of expertise and epistemic authority.

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