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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484211403321

Titolo

Experts and Consensus in Social Science / / edited by Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-08551-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, , 2211-2707 ; ; 50

Disciplina

10

300.1

330

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Social sciences and ethics

Consensus (Social sciences)

Philosophy

Social sciences

Social Sciences

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

History of Economic Thought/Methodology

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Experts and Consensus in Social Science / Marcel Boumans, Carlo Martini -- Consensus in Practice -- The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation -- How Experts Can Contribute to Reduce the Costs of Reaching Compromise Agreements / Frank A. G. den Butter, Sjoerd A. ten Wolde -- Model-Based Consensus / Marcel Boumans -- Explicating Ways of Consensus-Making in Science and Society: Distinguishing the Academic, the Interface and the Meta-Consensus / Laszlo Kosolosky, Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Frameworks of Consensus -- Judgments About the Relevance of Evidence in the Context of Peer Disagreements and Practical Rationality / Amir Konigsberg -- Seeking Consensus in the Social Sciences / Carlo Martini



-- Struggling Over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity Versus Expertise / Julian Reiss -- Attributing Standards of Expertise -- Epistemology as a Social Science: Applying the Neyman-Rubin Model to Explain Expert Beliefs / Aviezer Tucker -- The Expert Economist in Times of Uncertainty / Maria Jimenez-Buedo -- Validating Expert Judgment with the Classical Model / Roger M. Cooke -- The Truth About Accuracy / Filip Buekens, Fred Truyen -- The Democratic Dimension -- Expert Advisers: Why Economic Forecasters Can Be Useful Even When They Are Wrong / Robert Evans -- The Role of Experts in the Condominium Model as Republican (Re-) Solution of Social, Economic, and Political Problems / Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski -- Private Epistemic Virtue, Public Vices: Moral Responsibility in the Policy Sciences / Merel Lefevere, Eric Schliesser -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together the research of philosophers 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. This book offers the ingredients for building a normative theory of expertise on the basis of the evidence that social scientists and philosophers have uncovered.