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Title The philosophy of trust / edited by Paul Faulkner and Thomas Simpson
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Contents Cover; The Philosophy of Trust; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction; 1. Trust and Cooperation; 2. Trust and Knowledge; 3. Trust and Social Philosophy; 4. Chapter Summary; References; 2: The Empowering Theory of Trust; 1. Trust and Reliance; 2. The Case for the Empowering Theory; 2.1 Two theories; 2.2 The situational enhancement of dependability; 2.2.1 THE ENCOURAGEMENT ARGUMENT; 2.2.2 The request-based argument; 2.2.3 The esteem-based argument; 2.2.4 A question; 2.3 Modelling situational enhancement; 2.4 The situational reinforcement of durability
3. Trust-Responsiveness on the Empowering Theory3.1 The evocative ascription of trust-responsiveness; 3.2 Trust-responsiveness is context dependent; 3.3 Trust-responsiveness is a work in progress; 3.4 Ascribing trust-responsiveness is subject to moral norms; References; 3: Trust as a Second-Personal Attitude (of the Heart); 1. Baier, Jones, and Holton on Trust: The Participant Stance; 2. Participant, Reciprocating Attitudes: Deontic and Non-Deontic; 3. Trust as a Non-Deontic Attitude: A Contrast with Promising; 4. Trust as a Second-Personal Attitude of the Heart; References
4: On the Risks of Resting Assured: An Assurance Theory of Trust1. Trust Undisappointed yet Betrayed; 2. Trust as the Medium of Interpersonal Reason-Giving; 3. Trust Disappointed yet Unbetrayed; 4. Trust as the Medium of Intrapersonal Rational Coherence; 5. Self-Trust Undisappointed yet Betrayed; References; 5: Betraying Trust; Introduction; 1. The Formal Properties of the Obligation; 2. Varieties of Non-Moralized Trust and First-Order Obligations; 2.1 Mere reliance; 2.2 Goodwill trust; 2.3 Trust that has been invited; 3. Moralized Trust and Second-Order Obligations
3.1 The feeling of resentment and the feeling of betrayal3.2 Trust as a gift; 3.3 Trust as an honour; 4. Betrayals of Trust: The Account; Conclusion; References; 6: 'But I Was Counting On You!'; 1. The Significance of the Complaint; 2. Scanlon's Explanation of the Normative Force of 'But I Was Counting On You!'; 3. An Alternative Account of the Normative Force of 'But I Was Counting On You!'; 4. (Some) Norms of Trust and Trustworthiness; 5. Conclusion; References; 7: The Problem of Trust; 1. The Trust Game; 2. Gauthier's Internal Solution; 3. Pettit on Our Trust Responsiveness
4. Our Valuing Trust and Trustworthiness5. Trust as a Two-Place Relation; 6. The Trust-Based Solution; References; 8: Trust and Collective Agency; 1. Introduction; 2. Genuine Trust; 3. The Coordination Puzzle; 4. Team Reasoning and the Need for Assurance; 5. Trust as a Constitutive Element of Collective Agency; 6. Trust in Integrity; 7. Being One with Another; 8. Conclusion; References; 9: Trust as a Two-Place Relation; 1. Arguments for the Two-Place Account; 2. Trust, Reliance, and Reactive Attitudes; 3. The Extent of Trust; 4. Some Implications; References; 10: Deciding to Trust
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 realise 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 17, 2017)
Subject Social epistemology.
Trust -- Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Social epistemology
Form Electronic book
Author Faulkner, Paul, 1969- editor.
ISBN 9780191046476
0191046477
9780191796777
0191796778