Making Sense of Expertise

<p>Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions with expertise either defended or denigrated. <i>Making Sense of Expertise</i> instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a more nuanced understanding of the role of expertise in contemporary society.</p><p>Too often different meanings of experts and expertise are implied without making them explicit. Grundmann’s approach to expertise is based on a synthesis of approaches that exist in various fields of knowledge. The book aims at dispelling much of the confusion by offering a comprehensive and rigorous framework for the study of expertise. A series of in-depth case studies drawn from contemporary issues including the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic provide the empirical basis of the author’s comprehensive approach.</p><p>This thought-provoking book will be of great interests to students instructors and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities social sciences and science and technology studies.</p>