Philosophy, Expertise, and the Myth of Neutrality

Mirko Farina is Professor and Head of the Human Machine Interaction Lab (HMI Lab) in the Institute for Digital Economy and Artificial Systems (IDEAS), a joint collaboration between Xiamen University (XMU) and Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Innopolis University. Andrea Lavazza is a moral philosopher and a neuroethicist. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Centro Universitario Internazionale, Arezzo, Italy, and Adjunct Professor in Neuroethics at the University of Milan and at the University of Pavia, Italy. His main interests are at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and cognitive science.

Introduction: Gripping with the myth of neutrality Mirko Farina and Andrea Lavazza Part 1: Defining Expertise 1. Trustworthy experts and untrustworthy experts: Insights from the cognitive psychology of expertise Andrew J. Waters and Fernand Gobet 2. Covid-19 and denialism: A primer on cognitive psychology for science communicators and policymakers Andrea Lavazza and Mirko Farina 3. Do we still need experts? Nick Brancazio and Neil Levy 4. Hypocritical experts Duncan Pritchard 5. The epistemic authority of practice Dylan Mirek Popowicz Part 2: Expertise in Action 6. Reimagining expertise and neutrality toward epistemic justice in research, clinical translation, and policy: A perspective from neuroethics Anna Nuechterlein, Quinn Boyle, and Judy Illes 7. Expertise in action: Insights from Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) Olivia Brown, Nicola Power, Neil Shortland, and Julie Gore 8. What the pandemic showed us about reason and values Ulrike Hahn and Stephan Lewandowsky 9. The priests of the biomedical religion: Against a flawed understanding of experts Ralf J. Jox 10. Scarce resource allocation during infectious disease outbreaks: A communitarian perspective Xiaozheng Yang and Yali Cong Part 3: Expertise and its Values in the New World 11. Legal expertise and its subject matter within common law adjudication John Coggon 12. The revolution of (neuroscience) experts in the courtroom? Ilaria Zampieri, Matteo Pirisi, and Pietro Pietrini 13. When the politics of contextuality (can) subvert science: A case study of Australian women’s perceptions of alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk Kristen Foley, Belinda Lunnay, and Paul R. Ward 14. The post-truth challenge to expertise Douglas V. Porpora 15. Expertise for a New World: Is bioarchaeology fit for purpose? Charlotte A. Roberts