Birmingham City University
Dates of visit: January 2011 - December 2011
Project title: Understanding Expertise
Project description: Expertise is broadly conceived as covering various kinds of practical knowledge, attention based knowledge, skills, decision making and action planning and the like. A full understanding of expertise is a complex multi-disciplinary task in which significant disagreements about appropriate methodology often feature. There are different methodologies in different fields, divergent philosophical traditions, and distinct philosophical approaches to expertise are underdetermined by the currently available empirical data. A philosophical task is identifying appropriate methodologies and level of explanation with progress in these areas forming the basis for the development of better theories of expertise along with greater insight into the contextual interdependent nature of consciousness and action.