Philosophy 1030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Paleontology, Homeopathy, Richard Feynman
3 Nov 2016
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Herrick says that an expert is someone who has a great deal of knowledge in a particular area (at least in relation to the general population) Richard feynman was widely considered to be an expert in quantum mechanics, in his graduate entrance exam her got perfect in his math and physics section. Normally, this is based on (herrick 191: an education and training in the field, professional accomplishments, reputation amongst fears, history of reliable judgement. Fundamental difference rule: whenever the contemporaneous experts are more or less in agreement with an issue, within their field of expertise, we ought to accept what they say, in the absence of exceedingly powerful reasons for distrusting them. Study - 97% of climate scientists found that climate change is human caused, and 41% of the american public thinks it is human caused. So there are huge discrepancies between what the. Other examples of failures to obey the difference rule.
