From Trust to Trustworthiness

ISBN-13: 9780367671259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Maria Baghramian

Opis

Trust is an essential component of social life and yet political polarization and social tensions can easily lead to its erosion. The articles collected in this volume throw a new light on the fundamentals of trust and trustworthiness and thus help us understand better the conditions and the limits of trust. This book was originally published as

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Giving the Benefit of the Doubt  2. Trust in the Guise of Belief  3. Trusting Relationships and the Ethics of Interpersonal Action  4. Trust in the Normative Domain  5. Trusting the Media? TV News as a Source of Knowledge  6. Trust, Reliance, and Democracy  7. Trust within Limits  8. Trust and Betrayal from a Husserlian Standpoint  9. Transformative Choice, Practical Reasons and Trust  10. Linking Trust to Trustworthiness

O autorze

Maria Baghramian is a Full Professor of American Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published extensively on the topic of relativism and on contemporary American philosophy. Most recently she has been a Principal Investigator of the Research Project "When Experts Disagree" and a member of the British Academy/ALLEA working group on "Truth, Trust and Expertise".