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What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing?
Epistemic trespassers are experts who pass judgment on questions in fields where they lack expertise. What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? I identify several limitations with a seminal analysis to isolate three desiderata on an answer to this question and motivate my own answer. An answer (i) sh...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34024942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01657-6 |
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description | Epistemic trespassers are experts who pass judgment on questions in fields where they lack expertise. What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? I identify several limitations with a seminal analysis to isolate three desiderata on an answer to this question and motivate my own answer. An answer (i) should explain what’s wrong in the cases that motivate inquiry into epistemic trespassing, (ii) should explain what’s wrong with epistemic trespassing even if trespassers do not acknowledge their trespassing, and (iii) these explanations should not be independent of the fact that epistemic trespassing involves expertise. I also independently motivate a fourth desideratum: (iv) this account should explain the evaluative difference between different kinds of trespassing. To satisfy these desiderata, I develop a social analysis: epistemic trespassing is wrong because it is an abuse of expert authority that neglects novice vulnerabilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-81318772021-05-19 What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? DiPaolo, Joshua Philos Stud Article Epistemic trespassers are experts who pass judgment on questions in fields where they lack expertise. What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? I identify several limitations with a seminal analysis to isolate three desiderata on an answer to this question and motivate my own answer. An answer (i) should explain what’s wrong in the cases that motivate inquiry into epistemic trespassing, (ii) should explain what’s wrong with epistemic trespassing even if trespassers do not acknowledge their trespassing, and (iii) these explanations should not be independent of the fact that epistemic trespassing involves expertise. I also independently motivate a fourth desideratum: (iv) this account should explain the evaluative difference between different kinds of trespassing. To satisfy these desiderata, I develop a social analysis: epistemic trespassing is wrong because it is an abuse of expert authority that neglects novice vulnerabilities. Springer Netherlands 2021-05-19 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8131877/ /pubmed/34024942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01657-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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title | What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? |
title_full | What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? |
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title_full_unstemmed | What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? |
title_short | What’s wrong with epistemic trespassing? |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34024942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01657-6 |
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