The Authority of Experts
Author | : Thomas L. Haskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas L. Haskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ole Jacob Sending |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 047211963X |
A groundbreaking analysis that sheds new light on global governance
Author | : Douglas Walton |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271042540 |
Author | : Tom Nichols |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0197763839 |
"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Author | : Douglas Walton |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0271041943 |
Author | : Bo Bennett |
Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2012-02-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1456607375 |
This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills. "Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime." - Bo Bennett This 2021 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies with many updated examples.
Author | : Thomas L. Haskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jamie Carlin Watson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350216496 |
In this comprehensive tour of the long history and philosophy of expertise, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Jamie Carlin Watson tackles the question of expertise and why we can be skeptical of what experts say, making a valuable contribution to contemporary philosophical debates on authority, testimony, disagreement and trust. His review sketches out the ancient origins of the concept, discussing its early association with cunning, skill and authority and covering the sort of training that ancient thinkers believed was required for expertise. Watson looks at the evolution of the expert in the middle ages into a type of “genius” or “innate talent” , moving to the role of psychological research in 16th-century Germany, the influence of Darwin, the impact of behaviorism and its interest to computer scientists, and its transformation into the largely cognitive concept psychologists study today.
Author | : Gil Eyal |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1509538879 |
In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts’ many failures and misdeeds. In topics as varied as Brexit, climate change, and vaccinations there is a palpable mistrust of experts and a tendency to dismiss their advice. Are we witnessing, therefore, the “death of expertise,” or is the handwringing about an “assault on science” merely the hysterical reaction of threatened elites? In this new book, Gil Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other. The current mistrust of experts is best understood as one more spiral in an on-going, recursive crisis of legitimacy. The “scientization of politics,” of which critics warned in the 1960s, has brought about a politicization of science, and the two processes reinforce one another in an unstable, crisis-prone mixture. This timely book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and to anyone concerned about the political uses of, and attacks on, scientific knowledge and expertise.
Author | : Daniel T. Willingham |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1118233271 |
Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliable Each year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be "based on the latest research." While some of these products are rooted in solid science, the research behind many others is grossly exaggerated. This new book, written by a top thought leader, helps everyday teachers, administrators, and family members—who don't have years of statistics courses under their belts—separate the wheat from the chaff and determine which new educational approaches are scientifically supported and worth adopting. Author's first book, Why Don't Students Like School?, catapulted him to superstar status in the field of education Willingham's work has been hailed as "brilliant analysis" by The Wall Street Journal and "a triumph" by The Washington Post Author blogs for The Washington Post and Brittanica.com, and writes a column for American Educator In this insightful book, thought leader and bestselling author Dan Willingham offers an easy, reliable way to discern which programs are scientifically supported and which are the equivalent of "educational snake oil."