从我国审判实践出发,在吸收和借鉴英美法系专家证人和大陆法系技术顾问等制度相关内容的基础上,创设了我国的专家辅助人制度。专家辅助人制度对大多数人来说还比较陌生,本文从专家辅助人制度及专家辅助人的定义出发,阐述了司法鉴定中的认识论问题以及专家辅助人制度的意义,并对目前专家辅助人制度中存在的问题进行了分析。关键词专家辅助人司法鉴定刑事诉讼 Based on the trial practice in our country, we have created a system of expert assistants in our country on the basis of absorbing and drawing lessons from the systems of expert witnesses in Anglo-American legal system and technical advisers in civil law system. The expert assistant system is still unfamiliar to most people. Based on the definition of expert assistant system and expert assistant, this article elaborates the epistemological problems in judicial evaluation and the significance of expert assistant system. At the same time, System problems have been analyzed. Key words expert auxiliary person forensic criminal procedure