The Authority of experts : studies in history and theory / edited by Thomas L. Haskell.

Contributor(s):

Haskell, Thomas L., 1939-, Haskell, Thomas L., 1939-

Material type:

TextSeries: Interdisciplinary studies in historyPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1984.ISBN:

0253310792

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.5/53 19

LOC classification:

HD8038.A1 A88 1984

Contents:

Introduction / Thomas L. Haskell -- Are professions necessary? / Eliot Freidson -- The production of expertise and the constitution of expert power / Magali Sarfatti Larson -- The erosion of public culture / Thomas Bender -- The social foundations of professional credibility / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Inquiry and uplift / David A. Hollinger -- American social science and the idea of progress / Dorothy Ross -- Professionalism versus capitalism / Thomas L. Haskell -- Expertise, justification, and the psychology of inductive reasoning / Stephen P. Stich and Richard E. Nisbett -- Law as literature / Sanford Levinson.

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