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[Eubulides]

Perhaps, before the acrimony gets too out of control, debaters on the
climate change thread can agree to have a look at/loan from a
library/purchase "Rethinking Expertise" by Harry Collins and Robert
Evans?

Fast fingers on keyboards connected to the intertubes may only make a
troublesome situation worse. The last thing we need is climate science
falling to the same level of disrepute as economics.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=235436

Harry Collins and Robert Evans
Rethinking Expertise
176 pages, 8 halftones, 6 line drawings, 5 tables  6 x 9  © 2007
Cloth $37.50
ISBN: 9780226113609   Published October 2007
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226113616   Published March 2009
E-book from $5.00 to $22.50 (about e-books)
ISBN: 9780226113623

    * Synopsis

    * Table of Contents

    * Bio

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction Why Expertise?

Chapter 1           The Periodic Table of Expertises: Ubiquitous and
Specialist Expertises
Chapter 2           The Periodic Table of Expertises: Meta-expertises
and Meta-criteria
Chapter 3           Investigating Interactional Expertise and Embodiment
Chapter 4           The Color-Blindness and Perfect Pitch Experiments
Chapter 5           New Demarcation Criteria

Conclusion         Science, the Citizen, and the Role of Social Science
Appendix           Waves of Science Studies
Bibliography
Index