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An important contribution to the study of expertise has come from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. We have selected an excerpt from Harry Collins’ book Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines (MIT Press, 1990) to represent this body of work. This introduction locates the paper within its broader intellectual framework.
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Collins, H. (1998). Cultural Competence and Scientific Knowledge. In: Williams, R., Faulkner, W., Fleck, J. (eds) Exploring Expertise. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13693-3_6
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