Epistemic Inequality and the Grounds of Trust in Scientific Experts. Barrotta, P. & Gronda, R. In Trust, of Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, pages 81–94, Cham, 2020. Springer International Publishing. doi abstract bibtex The goal of this article is to expose the structural complexity of citizens’ trust in scientific experts, and to argue for the possibility of a productive cooperation between citizens and scientific experts within a community of inquirers. We firstly distinguish between three different idealized forms of epistemic inequality, with the purpose of shedding light on the distinctive features of the relationship between laypeople and scientific experts. Then, we highlight the multi-layeredness of the layperson-expert trust: though laypeople’s trust in science is of an epistemic kind, we maintain that its grounds are rather deontological and institutional. Finally, we show how the radical epistemic inequality between laypeople and scientific experts does not rule out the possibility of public deliberation on public issues, the latter being conceived of as problems in which scientific and socio-ethical–political components are essentially interwoven.
@inproceedings{barrotta_epistemic_2020,
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title = {Epistemic {Inequality} and the {Grounds} of {Trust} in {Scientific} {Experts}},
isbn = {978-3-030-44018-3},
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abstract = {The goal of this article is to expose the structural complexity of citizens’ trust in scientific experts, and to argue for the possibility of a productive cooperation between citizens and scientific experts within a community of inquirers. We firstly distinguish between three different idealized forms of epistemic inequality, with the purpose of shedding light on the distinctive features of the relationship between laypeople and scientific experts. Then, we highlight the multi-layeredness of the layperson-expert trust: though laypeople’s trust in science is of an epistemic kind, we maintain that its grounds are rather deontological and institutional. Finally, we show how the radical epistemic inequality between laypeople and scientific experts does not rule out the possibility of public deliberation on public issues, the latter being conceived of as problems in which scientific and socio-ethical–political components are essentially interwoven.},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Trust},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
author = {Barrotta, Pierluigi and Gronda, Roberto},
editor = {Fabris, Adriano},
year = {2020},
pages = {81--94},
}
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