The philosophy of trust / edited by Paul Faulkner and Thomas Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faulkner, Paul, 1969- editor.

Simpson, Thomas W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social epistemology.

Trust--Philosophy.

Trust.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Trust is central to our social lives. We know by trusting what others tell us. We act on that basis, and on the basis of trust in their promises and implicit commitments. So trust underpins both epistemic and practical cooperation and is key to philosophical debates on the conditions of its possibility. It is difficult to overstate the significance of these issues. On the practical side, discussions of cooperation address what makes society possible - of how it is that life is not a Hobbesian war of all against all. On the epistemic side, discussions of cooperation address what makes the pooling of knowledge possible - and so the edifice that is science. But trust is not merely central to our lives instrumentally; trusting relations are themselves of great value and, in trusting others, we realize distinctive forms of value. What are these forms of value, and how is trust central to our lives? These questions are explored and developed in this volume, which collects fifteen new essays on the philosophy of trust. They develop and extend existing philosophical discussion of trust and will provide a reference point for future work on trust.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Thomas Simpson

2. Empowering Theory of Trust / Philip Pettit

3. Trust as a Second-Personal Attitude (of the Heart) / Stephen Darwall

4. On the Risks of Resting Assured: An Assurance Theory of Trust / Edward S. Hinchman

5. Betraying Trust / Collin O'Neil

6. 'But I Was Counting On You!' / Karen Jones

7. Problem of Trust / Paul Faulkner

8. Trust and Collective Agency / Bernd Lahno

9. Trust as a Two-Place Relation / Richard Holton

10. Deciding to Trust / Benjamin McMyler

11. Trust and Evidence / Thomas Simpson

12. Being Pragmatic about Trust / Philip J. Nickel

13. Trusting a Promise and Other Things / David Owens

14. Trustworthy Groups and Organizations / Katherine Hawley

15. Faith in Kant / Guy Longworth

16. `Trust is Basic': Løgstrup on the Priority of Trust / Robert Stern.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-104648-5

0-19-179677-8

0-19-104647-7