Chapter 14. The Power and Limits of Professional Knowledge (And of the Disciplines that Underlie Them)
Professional Fallibility and the Glut of Information
The Ideal of Professional Knowledge
Who Should We Believe?
True and False Loyalty to a Profession
The Gap Between Fact and Ideal
Assessing A Profession or a Professional Conclusion: Matters of Fact, Matters of Opinion, Matters of Judgment
The Ideal Compared to the Real
Professions Based on the Ideal of Mathematics and Abstract Quantification
The Pain and Suffering of Those Who Fail
Loss of Self-Esteem and Opportunity to Receive Higher Education
Low Level of Math Competency of Those Who Pass School Examinations
The Ideal of Science: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, and Biology
The Ideal of Social Science: History, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, and Psychology
History as an Ideal
Sociology as an Ideal
Anthropology as an Ideal
Economics as an Ideal
The Social Sciences as Taught and Practiced
The Ideal of the Arts and Humanities: Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy
The Promise of the Fine Arts and Literature
The Reality of Instruction in the Fine Arts and Literature
The Promise of Philosophy
The Reality of Philosophy
Conclusion
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