[Download] The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters Writen By Thomas M. Nichols

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

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Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than

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Author : Thomas M. Nichols

Pages : 252 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0190865970

ISBN-13 : 9780190865979

 
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