The Death of Expertise

书名：The Death of ExpertiseTheCampaignAgainstEstablishedKnowledgeandWhyitMatters
作者：ThomasM.Nichols
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ISBN：9780190469412
出版社：OxfordUniversityPress
出版时间：2017-3-1
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：272
豆瓣评分： 7.5

书籍简介：

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 producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.

作者简介：

Tom Nichols is Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College, an adjunct professor at the Harvard Extension School, and a former aide in the U.S. Senate. He is also the author of several works on foreign policy and international security affairs, including The Sacred Cause, No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security, Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War, and The Russian Presidency.

He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion, and as one of the all-time top players of the game, he was invited back to play in the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Nichols' website is tomnichols.net and he can be found on Twitter at @RadioFreeTom.

书友短评：

@ eric I still found it fascinating how I, a person with a graduate-level degree and extensive self-education through extensive reading, knew so very little about so much. I became aware of how easy it is to think that I know more than I do. It was quite humbling, which I need to remember more frequently in discussions on many topics. @ 糯米君 The author clearly takes a defensive attitude towards experts & elitism.He's more of a conservative discontent with new things than a maintenance pundit.He's criticism of anti-intellectuality is that the phenomenon presented by society & the Internet in diff places or diff cultures impossible for everyone become an elitis with the increase of info @ 多喜子 [有声书] 内容如标题所示，从多个方面讨论了专家被喷成砖家的原因，新闻啊记者啊网络公司啊大学教育啊等等，虽然有点口水话，但有些章节还是蛮棒的，尤其是大学教育那一章（可能也是我背景知识最多的一章吧所以收获比较多），简直把当今美国大学的服务业性质、把学生的感受而不是传道授业解惑放在首要位置、上大学门槛低且变成高中的延续等等问题集中抨击了一番，不可谓不爽。然而作者整体是持悲观态度，觉得这个问题很可能无解。个人体会的话，则是在非自己专业问题上还是要信得过专家而不是揪住专家的一两次错误而彻底否定；而在自己专业问题上，尤其是因为最近在做统计咨询顶着专家的帽子，则是仔细分析有理有据，但自己绝对不是做决策的人，而是个人和职业上的最大努力，帮助决策者做决策，当然也要会反思从错误中吸取经验教训。 @ Mwangi 问题很深刻，但多只是泛泛而论 @ Marni 主题挺好，但一直在浅显的现象上转圈圈，不深入。

Preface
Introduction. The Death of Expertise
Chapter 1. Experts and Citizens
Chapter 2. How Conversation Became Exhausting
Chapter 3. Higher Education: The Customer Is Always Right
Chapter 4. Let Me Google That for You: How Unlimited Information Is Making Us Dumber
Chapter 5. The "New" New Journalism, and Lots of It
Chapter 6. When the Experts Are Wrong
Conclusion. Experts and Democracy
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