In times of populist mistrust towards experts, it is important and the aim of the paper to ascertain the rationality of arguments from expert opinion and to reconstruct their rational foundations as well as to determine their limits. The foundational approach chosen is probabilistic. However, there are at least three correct probabilistic reconstructions of such argumentations: statistical inferences, Bayesian updating, and interpretive arguments. To solve this competition problem, the paper proposes a recourse to the arguments' justification strengths achievable in the respective situation.

Lumer, C. (2020). Arguments from Expert Opinion – An Epistemological Approach. In Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Henrike Jansen, Jan Albert van Laar, Bart Verheij (a cura di), Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (pp. 403-422). Non specificato : College Publications.

Arguments from Expert Opinion – An Epistemological Approach

christoph Lumer
2020-01-01

Abstract

In times of populist mistrust towards experts, it is important and the aim of the paper to ascertain the rationality of arguments from expert opinion and to reconstruct their rational foundations as well as to determine their limits. The foundational approach chosen is probabilistic. However, there are at least three correct probabilistic reconstructions of such argumentations: statistical inferences, Bayesian updating, and interpretive arguments. To solve this competition problem, the paper proposes a recourse to the arguments' justification strengths achievable in the respective situation.
2020
978-1-84890-331-9
Lumer, C. (2020). Arguments from Expert Opinion – An Epistemological Approach. In Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Henrike Jansen, Jan Albert van Laar, Bart Verheij (a cura di), Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (pp. 403-422). Non specificato : College Publications.
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