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Rogelio MIRANDA VILCHIS ABSTRACT: In this paper, I develop a minimal empirically-based characterization of philosophical expertise, exploring its significant theoretical and practical implications for philosophy and metaphilosophy. Throughout the history of philosophy, philosophers have engaged in metaphilosophical reflections on the nature of philosophy (think, e.g., of Plato’s efforts to distinguish philosophers from sophists) and the present era is no exception. …

Michael J. SHAFFER ABSTRACT: Given the sheer vastness of the totality of contemporary human knowledge and our individual epistemic finitude it is commonplace for those of us who lack knowledge with respect to some proposition(s) to appeal to experts (those who do have knowledge with respect to that proposition(s)) as an epistemic resource. Of course, much ink has been spilled …