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Research Themes

Expertise and Credibility

Across my work, I develop a broader account of expertise that goes beyond knowledge possession. Expertise includes not only technical competence, but also practical
judgment, institutional positioning, and normative expectations about authority and responsibility.

This research examines how credibility is attributed and maintained, and how expert authority depends on social and institutional conditions rather than purely epistemic
credentials. It challenges individualistic accounts of expertise by emphasizing its relational and context-dependent nature.

By reframing expertise in this way, my work contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how authority functions in scientific and public settings.

Selected publications

  • “Medical Expertise.” Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine (2025).
  • “Public Misunderstanding of Science? Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy.” Perspectives on Science 24:5, 552-581 (2016)
  • Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science. University of Pittsburgh Press (2021)

Connection to broader work
This research is central to my work on trust and misinformation and plays a key role in my broader account of how epistemic authority is organized and evaluated.

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