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Conclusion - how can we get better at testing experts?
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Experts in Politics - Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Socrates' argument for what makes an expert
- 3 Elizabeth Anderson's theory that most scientists are credible, only a few obvious 'crackpots'
- 4 How Socrates tested experts with logic, argued for constant vigilance against fake experts
- 5 Isaiah Berlin's theory of experts as either hedgehogs or foxes
- 6 Contributory expertise vs interactional expertise
- 7 Aristotle on levels of expertise, how general knowledge can be sufficient to judge experts
- 8 How Plato warned against overconfidence in one's expertise
- 9 How cognitives biases affect us all including experts
- 10 What Aristotle teaches about how expertise should serve democracy, not overpower it
- 11 A model for dialogue between citizens and experts
- 12 Conclusion - how can we get better at testing experts?
- 13 Q&A Session
