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How to Judge Expertise in Philosophy
Some commentators have taken me to say that unless you have a PhD, you should shut up about certain things. What I'm saying is that if you want to talk about things that do require technical expertise, either you put the time to actually get a degree or official recognition. And there isn't even that much of a consensus on most of the issues that philosophers work on. The highest percentage of philosophers committing to any one particular view on an issue was 70%. That's more people than are involved in forecasting daily weather and making medical diagnoses.