Why Does It Matter?
The concept of interactional expertise is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, it provides a new way of engaging with traditional problems in the philosophy of knowledge. Secondly, it appears to be implicated in a wide range of social activities, ranging from some styles of management in large organisations to high level specialist journalism to the peer review that is at the centre of science. Both of these are described in more detail below.
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