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Asymmetry, disagreement and biases: epistemic worries about expertise

Holst, Cathrine; Molander, Anders
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https://hdl.handle.net/10642/6575
Date
2018-12-03
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Holst C, Molander A. Asymmetry, disagreement and biases: epistemic worries about expertise. Social Epistemology. 2018;32(6):358-371   http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2018.1546348
Abstract
This paper contributes to an on-going exchange in political theory on the normative

legitimacy of expert bodies. It focuses on epistemic worries about the expertization of

politics, and uses the Nordic system of advisory commissions as an empirical case.

Epistemic concerns are often underplayed by those who defend an increasing role of

experts in policy-making, while those who have epistemic worries often tend to

overstate them and debunk expertise. We present ten epistemic worries, of which

some are of an epistemological nature, while others are related to failures and biases.

These worries must not be overstated, but no doubt point to real problems which

have to be handled through the design of expert bodies and institutions of science

advice. We introduce three groups of mechanisms that are likely to contribute to remedying the problems of expertise and discuss what they imply for the design of a

system of public advisory commissions.
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Series
Social Epistemology;Volume 32, 2018 - Issue 6: Expertise and Expert Knowledge
Journal
Social Epistemology

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