Introduction / Thomas L. Haskell
Are professions necessary? / Eliot Freidson
The production of expertise and the constitution of expert power / Magali Sarfatti Larson
The erosion of public culture / Thomas Bender
The social foundations of professional credibility / Peter Dobkin Hall
Inquiry and uplift / David A. Hollinger
American social science and the idea of progress / Dorothy Ross
Professionalism versus capitalism / Thomas L. Haskell
Expertise, justification, and the psychology of inductive reasoning / Stephen P. Stich and Richard E. Nisbett
Law as literature / Sanford Levinson.