Studies of expertise and experience

I describe the program of analysis of expertise known as ‘Studies of Expertise and Experience’, or ‘SEE’ and contrast it with certain philosophical approaches. SEE differs from many approaches to expertise in that it takes the degree of ‘esotericity’ of the expertise to be one of its characteristics: esotericity is not a defining characteristic of expertise. Thus, native language speaking is taken to be an expertise along with gravitational wave physics. Expertise is taken to be acquired by socialisation within expert communities. Various methods of analysis are described

Gravitational waves and scientific realism

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The Use Of Audio Visual Aid For Instruction In Vocational Agriculture

Introduction Until recently teaching materials were pretty generally restricted to textbooks and supplementary reading materials. However, newer materials have beyond doubt, enhanced and facilitated the total educational process and learning itself. Among the materials which have brought enrichment to the learning experiences of America\u27s children and youth, audio-visual materials rank high. Consequently, educators are greatly concerned about the use of audio-visual experiences as an aid to any phase of the school instructional program

Are experts right or are they members of expert groups?

I describe an approach to the meaning of expertise that grows out of sociological approaches to the analysis of science such as ‘sociology of scientific knowledge’. This approach was introduced to counter certain political interpretations of the movement associated with that new perspective. Here, ‘Studies of Expertise and Experience’ is described and contrasted with standard philosophical and psychological approaches to expertise. It is suggested that it leads in new and interesting directions and suffers from fewer conceptual problems than these standard approaches

Symmetry, forced asymmetry, direct apprehension, and elective modernism

Crazily, Christopher Norris seems to think sociology is at war with philosophy; it is not. I respond to his hostile comments on the sociology of scientific knowledge, which was inspired by Wittgenstein, by explaining the need for symmetry in the explanation of scientific knowledge, methodological relativism, elective modernism and a number of other issues