Expert Trespassing Testimony and the Ethics of Science Communication

摘要: Scientific expert testimony is crucial to public deliberation, but it associated with many pitfalls. This article identifies one—namely, trespassing testimony—which may be characterized, crudely, as the phenomenon of experts testifying outside their domain expertise. My agenda provide a more precise characterization this and consider its ramifications for role science in society. I argue that both epistemically problematic morally problematic. Specifically, will scientific are subject particular obligation. Roughly, obligation qualify assertions when speaking expertise certain contexts. Thus, scientists who possess knowledge confronted hard questions about how testify and, therefore, being comes great responsibility. Consequently, concrete “expert guideline” according which experts, contexts, face an Furthermore, number conditions guideline waived or overridden. On basis, broader aspects roles society high division cognitive labor calls trust testimony.