The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism
暫譯: 專業的武器化：精英如何助長民粹主義
Russell, Jacob Hale, Patterson, Dennis
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The problem with expertise--and the dark side of the equation "knowledge = power." Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their case, revealing how the hubris of all-too-human experts undermined--perhaps irreparably--public faith in elite policymaking. Paradoxically, by turning science into dogmatism, the overweening elite response has also proved deeply corrosive to expertise itself--in effect, doing exactly what elite policymakers accuse their critics of doing. A much-needed corrective to a dangerous blind faith in expertise, The Weaponization of Expertise identifies a cluster of pathologies that have enveloped many institutions meant to help referee expert knowledge, in particular a disavowal of the doubt, uncertainty, and counterarguments that are crucial to the accumulation of knowledge. At a time when trust in expertise and faith in institutions are most needed and most lacking, this work issues a stark reminder that a crisis of misinformation may well begin at the top.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
專業知識的問題——以及「知識 = 權力」這個等式的黑暗面。
專家並非萬無一失。將他們視為如此對我們所有人造成了嚴重的損害，正如專業知識的武器化所清楚表明的，這導致了全知專家及其精英圈子所譴責的民粹主義。雅各布·海爾·拉塞爾（Jacob Hale Russell）和丹尼斯·帕特森（Dennis Patterson）以COVID-19大流行的毀滅性例子來說明他們的觀點，揭示了過於人性化的專家的自負如何破壞了公眾對精英政策制定的信任，這種破壞或許是不可逆的。矛盾的是，通過將科學變成教條，過度自負的精英反應也證明對專業知識本身造成了深刻的侵蝕——實際上，這正是精英政策制定者指責其批評者所做的事情。 作為對對專業知識的危險盲目信任的急需修正，專業知識的武器化識別出一系列包圍許多旨在幫助裁定專家知識的機構的病態，特別是對懷疑、不確定性和反論的否認，這些都是知識積累的關鍵。在當前對專業知識的信任和對機構的信心最為需要且最為缺乏的時刻，這部作品發出了一個明確的提醒：錯誤資訊的危機可能正是從頂層開始的。作者簡介
Jacob Hale Russell is Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. Dennis Patterson is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers Law School and Professor of Legal Philosophy at Surrey Law School, UK. He is the author, with Michael Pardo, of Minds, Brains, and Law.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
雅各布·海爾·拉塞爾（Jacob Hale Russell）是羅格斯法學院的副教授。丹尼斯·帕特森（Dennis Patterson）是羅格斯法學院的董事會教授及英國薩里法學院的法律哲學教授。他與邁克爾·帕多（Michael Pardo）共同著作了《心智、大腦與法律》（Minds, Brains, and Law）。
