Institutionalized Expertise: Trust, Rejection, and Ignorance. DeNicola, D. R. In Pritchard, D., Farina, M., & Lavazza, A., editors, Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives, pages 0. Oxford University Press, June, 2024.
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The problematic of this article is the apparently oppositional interaction of two contemporary social trends: (1) the expansion, institutionalization, and specialization of expertise; and (2) rising public distrust and rejection of expert authority and the institutions that create and certify it. Among various forms of expertise, it is those that are normative-regulative (not merely descriptive), those that advise clients, those I call open-loop professions, for which the two trends are most acute. The erosion of public trust in advisory experts (health officials, economists, environmentalists, educators, etc.) is widely documented for the USA and the UK. I offer an analysis of forces propelling this disrespect and argue that, ironically, aspects of the first trend—the evolution of the professions—are implicated. I conclude with suggestions for coping with the epistemic asymmetry of client and expert advisor.
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