Expertise and Expert Knowledge in Social and Procedural Entanglement

• Authors: Hetmański Marek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyzes, on the basis of Ryle’s concepts of knowledge that and knowledge how, both objectified (verbalized, justified and verified) forms of expert knowledge and the performative (procedural, interactional) nature of expertise. Both theoretical and practical aspects of the identified categories are studied from historical and social (institutional) perspectives as phenomena characteristic of post-modern information society. In virtue of the selected social examples an epistemological model of performative expert knowledge and expertise is constructed in which crucial elements are distinguished: experts’ cognitive attitudes and dispositions, intellectual skills, intuition and mistakes as well as types of interactional versus contributory expertise. Also considered are the epistemological consequences derived from the research concerning expertise in psychiatric treatment where both expert knowledge and expertise fall into line with institutional requirements (medical or juridical) as well as procedures (correspondence with facts and/or other procedures).

Keywords

EN

expert knowledge; expertise; interactional expertise; psychiatric expertise; epistemic value; procedures

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 6-22

Dates

published

2020-08-05

Contributors

author

Hetmański Marek

• Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0013