Marcoci, A;
Nguyen, J;
(2020)
Judgement aggregation in scientific collaborations: The case for waiving expertise.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
, 84
pp. 66-74.
10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.08.001.
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Abstract
The fragmentation of academic disciplines forces individuals to specialise. In doing so, they become experts over their narrow area of research. However, ambitious scientific projects, such as the search for gravitational waves, require them to come together and collaborate across disciplinary borders. How should scientists with expertise in different disciplines treat each others’ expert claims? An intuitive answer is that the collaboration should defer to the opinions of experts. In this paper we show that under certain seemingly innocuous assumptions, this intuitive answer gives rise to an impossibility result when it comes to aggregating the beliefs of experts to deliver the beliefs of a collaboration as a whole. We then argue that when experts’ beliefs come into conflict, they should waive their expert status.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Judgement aggregation in scientific collaborations: The case for waiving expertise |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.08.001 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.08.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Scientific rationality, Judgement aggregation, Social epistemology, Collaboration in science |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110966 |
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