Stephen P. Turner is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He has written extensively on expertise and politics, including such books as Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (Sage 2003), and many articles on the patronage of science, expertise and bureaucracy, the legitimation of expertise, and expertise in the context of the larger problem of the relationship between the distribution of knowledge in society and the distributions of wealth and power. Several of these writings have recently been collected in The Politics of Expertise (Routledge 2014). His writings include discussions of a wide range of topics, including geological surveys in the nineteenth century, water policy in the arid lands of the Western United States, cholera, the Chinese exam system and bureaucracy, the “expertise” of the Communist party in Eastern Europe, the Columbia Shuttle disaster, social reformism and its claims to expertise, the turn from public edification to expert knowledge claims in American sociology in mid-century, and expertise in the European Community. Most recently, he has published a discussion of expert claims and their conflict with lived experience in the case of hysterectomies with Oophorectomy, in the Sociological Review Monograph “Sociologies of moderation: problems of democracy, expertise and the media”