Experts and Consensus in Social Science
Editors: Martini, Carlo, Boumans, Marcel (Eds.)
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- Can be used as a handbook on expert consensus
- Takes a normative stance on the problem of expertise
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- About this book
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This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address and possibly, bring solutions to social problems. A common phenomenon in applications of science is that objective evidence does not point to a single answer or solution, to a problem. Reliance on subjective judgment, then, becomes necessary, despite the known fact that hunches, even those of putative experts, often provide information that is not very accurate, and that experts are prone to fallacies and biases. The book looks at how experts reach consensus in the social sciences, and which experts are relevant to which problems. It aims to answer many questions, the main one being: Can we start building a normative theory of expertise on the basis of the evidence that social scientists, sociologists and philosophers have uncovered?
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Experts and Consensus in Social Science
Pages 1-13
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The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation; How Experts Can Contribute to Reduce the Costs of Reaching Compromise Agreements
Pages 17-48
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Model-Based Consensus
Pages 49-69
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Explicating Ways of Consensus-Making in Science and Society: Distinguishing the Academic, the Interface and the Meta-Consensus
Pages 71-92
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Judgments About the Relevance of Evidence in the Context of Peer Disagreements and Practical Rationality
Pages 95-114
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Experts and Consensus in Social Science
- Editors
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- Carlo Martini
- Marcel Boumans
- Series Title
- Ethical Economy
- Series Volume
- 50
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-08551-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-08551-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-08550-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-34319-8
- Series ISSN
- 2211-2707
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 305
- Number of Illustrations
- 8 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
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