The following is an excerpt from The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, which was published in 2017. We covered this book in Al-Andalus Book Club in 2018. I found myself thinking about this work again recently. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with various forms of lockdowns and restrictions in different major cities around the world, many are […]
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In every field of human intellectual endeavour one is bound to find a disagreement between experts. As individuals, we’re all subject to limits in our knowledge and experience. This is a proposition most of us don’t find difficulty acknowledging and accepting. What’s more challenging for us to accept is that our limits of knowledge and […]