CARDIFF UNIVERSITY UK Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Levelling the Doman Mount Science Cultural plain “FROM TRUTH TO EXPERTISE”

Citations to 2002 paper according to web of science Jul

Books

Concrete Institutions WEBSITE (Or Google “Harry Collins Expertise”) TALK LIST ANNUAL WORKSHOP SEESHOP1, 2, 3, 4 (etc, we hope)

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Access to tacit knowledge of domain Individual accomplishment Three dimensions of expertise Esoteric Ubiquitous Topic of both psychology and philosophy: eg “stage theories” SEE “sociologises” analysis of expertise along two dimensions

Using Expertise-Space Diagram 1 Exposure to tacit knowledge of domain Esotericity

Using Expertise-Space Diagram 2

Using Expertise-Space Diagram 3 Exposure to tacit knowledge of domain Esotericity B F C A B E F D C

Blind condition Sighted condition Don’t know equivalents Net right guesses Net wrong guesses IDENTIFY CHANCE Blind p= Imitation Game tests with the blind Quantitative data Identification Ratios, 0.86 and 0.13 Effect size = 0.7 Proportion net correct guesses (right-wrong) Remainder

IR = Identify condition on right COLOR- BLIND P’FECT PITCH BLIND SEX- UALITY RELIGION GENDER f m GENDER old young Chance IR Identify IR Effect Size Fisher Test New method for comparative social analysis + ethnicity Proposed European comparative project  + Brazil/USA

The Politics of the 3 rd Wave Combat technological populism and, it turns out, all forms of populism Not anti-democratic but, perhaps, Rawlsian democracy ( Durant 2010 ) Choose scientific values as central to society as they are a subset of democratic values (neo-Mertonian):`Elective Modernism’ Collins, Harry, Weinel, Martin and Evans, Robert, `The Politics and Policy of the Third Wave: New Technologies and Society’ Critical Policy Studies, 4, 2, )

Some crucial features 1.Science is a distinct form of life with characteristic features linked by family resemblance 2.Distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic politics 3.`Political phase’ has priority over but must not distort or subvert `technical phase’, only publicly over-ride 4.Expertise is real and social scientists are experts on expertise

Credo 3-Wave is neither anti-democratic nor technocratic `Democracy cannot dominate every domain – that would destroy expertise – and expertise cannot dominate every domain – that would destroy democracy.’

Real time analysis Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS policy: It may have been politically motivated But Mbeki said it was a scientific question, distorting the technical phase and disempowering the political process SEE could show, in real time, how Mbeki’s expertise was inappropriate to the making of a scientific decision

Anti-populism 1 Criminal justice and deterrence Problem of populism: In the UK politicians appealing to popular opinion in respect of the deterrent effect of capital punishment would immediately reintroduce it In the more democratically responsive USA this has happened Same for punishment of criminals of all sorts: retain expert role for criminologists

Anti-populism 2 Popular intervention in education policy Student feedback/ parent choice? Teaching of creationism/intelligent design? Retain expert role for academics/teachers?

Map of 3 rd Wave/SEE Periodic table Interactional expertise Imitation game Ethnography Anthropology Sociology Comparative analysis of societies Relationship between science and politics at different levels Tacit Knowledge Philosophy Psychology Neuropsychology Elective modernism/ Rawlsian model Criminology Role of expertise in decision- making institutions Real-time analysis EXPERTISE Nature and analysis POLITICS Recognising expertise and scientific values DEMARCATION LLI Political philosophy Other categories Social theory Division of labour Notion of collectivity Fractal model Role of language/practice … … EXPERTISE DOMAIN POLITICS and POLICY DOMAIN STS DOMAIN Management Education Media Studies …