Experts, Teachers and Their Epistemic Roles in Normative and Non-normative Domains : Comments on Dieter Birnbacher and Karen Jones & François Schroeter

Abstract: Goldman's notions of expert and testimony in epistemological contexts are extended to normative issues. The result is a sketch of a conceptual framework: several types of experts and roles they can serve in informing not specially qualified recipients are distinguished; differences between experts in epistemological and moral contexts are highlighted. This framework then is the point of reference for claims about experts, expertise and moral testimony in Birnbacher's and Jones & Schroeter's contributions to this volume. First, Birnbacher's worries about the legitimacy of moral philosophers sitting as experts on panels, etc. are allayed in one respect and aggravated in another: there are roles and qualifications open to informants about normative issues, but it is doubtful whether moral philosophers per se are up to each of them. Secondly, Jones & Schroeter's objection to Hills's claim that moral testimony cannot orient its recipient properly towards right-making reasons for acting is faulty.

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Experts, Teachers and Their Epistemic Roles in Normative and Non-normative Domains ; volume:34 ; number:2 ; year:2012 ; pages:251-274 ; extent:24 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 34, Heft 2 (2012), 251-274 (gesamt 24)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Steinig, Tobias

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-2012-0207
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404171639235.144738344829
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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