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Steve Clarke

Disciplines:
ethics
philosophy of science
ethics/applied ethics

Summary

Australian philosopher who has worked on the argument from authority in epistemology and on bioethics.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the epistemology of testimony and expert authority — when is it rational to defer to experts? — and to applied ethics in medicine and technology.

Historical Influences

Alvin Goldman

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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