Trustworthy experts and untrustworthy experts
Year: 2024

A central concern of the book is the importance of being able to distinguish “trustworthy subjects – who increase the epistemic welfare of our communities – from those untrustworthy individuals, who instead do not deserve our epistemic credit”. This question is addressed from the perspective of the cognitive psychology of expertise. It is argued that trustworthy subjects, or “true experts”, are different from “untrustworthy subjects” in three ways. First, true experts can only develop in a regul