Rethinking Expertise

by Harry M. Collins, Harry Collins, Robert Evans

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What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology.

Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge-knowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some expertises are used to judge others, how laypeople judge...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226113612

ISBN13:9780226113616

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Education & Reference Engineering History & Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Reference Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Social Science

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