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Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in Philosophy
The Problem With Critical Legitimation of Epistemic Authority
I think it is a genuine problem and possibly one that I sort of was underestimated or haven't, you know, in the book. And so it's not even clear whether the scientific community has any of the skills that would enable them to navigate this well. It raises the unfortunate specter of a group of planet scientists hiring Carl Rhone to do their PR. Right, there's a particularly now I think a growing literature on sort of agnatology or the, the, the study of the production of uncertainty which does see an explicit political gaming of scientific processes. But they're particularly vulnerable to precisely because they don't have kind of this political or institutional sort of way of thinking about what
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