Trusting Experts?
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper argues against the claim that 'expertise requires trust'. It does so by distinguishing between two versions of the claim, one according to which expertise requires trustworthiness and one according to which expertise requires actual trust. The paper then argues that the former version of the claim is obvious and therefore philosophically uninteresting, while the latter version of the claim is actually false. Five cases are deployed to defend these arguments, so that along the way we also find out more about the nature of expertise, trust and also, incidentally, corruption and even ChatGPT.
Source: Diametros
DOI: 10.33392/diam.2011
Author: Ezio Di Nucci
Institution: University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408037869