The benefits of acquiring interactional expertise: Why (some) philosophers of science should engage scientific communities.

Philosophers of science are increasingly arguing for and addressing the need to do work that is socially and scientifically engaged. However, we currently lack well-developed frameworks for thinking about how we should engage other expert communities and what the epistemic benefits are of doing so. In this paper, I draw on Collins and Evans' concept of 'interactional expertise' - the ability to speak the language of a discipline in the absence of an ability to practice - to consider the epistemic benefits that can arise when philosophers engage scientific communities.

Understanding "What Could Be": A Call for 'Experimental Behavioral Genetics'.

Behavioral genetic (BG) research has yielded many important discoveries about the origins of human behavior, but offers little insight into how we might improve outcomes. We posit that this gap in our knowledge base stems in part from the epidemiologic nature of BG research questions. Namely, BG studies focus on understanding etiology as it currently exists, rather than etiology in environments that could exist but do not as of yet (e.