TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martini,Carlo
AU  - Boumans,Marcel
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Experts and Consensus in Social Science
T2  - Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy,
SN  - 9783319085517
AV  - B63 
U1  - 300.1 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Philosophy (General)
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Economics
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
KW  - Methodology and the History of Economic Thought
KW  - Methodology of the Social Sciences
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08551-7
ER  -