期刊名称：Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1091-8264
出版年度：2006
卷号：9
期号：3
出版社：Digital Library and Archives,Virginia Tech
摘要：Academic-researcher-led public engagement and consultation on new
biotechnology provides information about new biotechnology to the public, and
solicits their attitudes, beliefs and understanding about the technology. A burden
associated with the democratic ideals of transparency and accountability
encourages researchers to provide accurate information to the public. Less
recognized is their role as actual, or perceived, authorities to provide new
knowledge and to make policy or regulatory decisions. This paper focuses on the
first of these two – the conflation between expertise on the subject of the
engagement and the authority to represent that subject in an engagement process.
While expertise, or at least accuracy in portraying expert knowledge, is
consistent with transparency and accountability, it is argued here that authority in
the representation of expert knowledge may be inconsistent with the intent of
public engagement and consultation.
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