About

Anna Alexandrova is Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. At CRASSH she is the Principal Investigator of the project ‘Expertise Under Pressure’, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation, and was previously one of the Directors of the project Limits of the Numerical, funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation.

The overarching goal of Expertise Under Pressure is to establish a broad framework for understanding what makes expertise authoritative, when experts overreach, and what realistic demands communities should place on experts.

Before coming to Cambridge, Anna taught at the University of Missouri St Louis and studied at the University of California, San Diego. She has written on the methodology of model-based science, the role of rational choice theory in social science, the authority of economics, and more recently on measurement of well-being, happiness and quality of life. Her book A Philosophy for the Science of Well-being appeared in 2017 with Oxford University Press. Her current interests are in the ways that AI and automation are changing expertise and knowledge.

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