Genius, Hawking, and expertise

摘要

The first point I addressed in this review essay was to specify how Mialet's treatment was an alternative to an attributional or realist theory of genius. If, however, we agree that attributions of genius in Brannigan's sense do not conflict with the reality of genius, but instead frame that reality with a different logic than the customary mentalistic version, we should then see that there is no opposition. Nevertheless, Mialet's account of the material, technological, and communicative production of a singular 'genius' offers an alternative to a conceptual framing of that category.