On How Expertise Ascriptions Work
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Christian Quast
Abstract
Expertise is often ascribed to persons who are considered exceptionally competent in a particular subject matter. In contrast to this traditional approach, the present paper introduces a contextual understanding of expertise ascriptions. More precisely, this paper introduces two different kinds of contextuality by advancing and advocating the thesis that expertise ascriptions are true if and only if their content within their context of use is true against standards in the context of assessment. This means that expertise ascriptions have indexical content and are also assessment-sensitive. On this basis, a definition of expertise will be developed which outlines a series of conditions for what it takes to be an expert.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents
- Focus Experiments on Social Norms II
- Altruistic Punishment: The Golden Keystone of Human Cooperation and Social Stability?
- Measuring Social Norms in Economics: Why It Is Important and How It Is Done
- What a Theory of Social Norms and Institutions Should Look Like
- The Legitimacy of Groups: Toward a We-Reasoning View
- General Part
- Social Integration and Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany
- On How Expertise Ascriptions Work
- Expertise as a Form of Knowledge: A Response to Quast
- Discussion
- Précis: Our Moral Fate: Evolution And The Escape From Tribalism
- Varieties of Tribalism in the Laboratory
- The Meaning of Mass Atrocities Beyond Our Moral Fate
