The Nature and Practice of Trust

ISBN-13: 9781032415130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 184 str.

USA) Cohen Marc A. (Seattle University

Opis

Across the social sciences and even in philosophy, trust is most often characterized in terms of expectations and probabilities. This book defends an alternative conception of trust as a moral phenomenon.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Nature of Trust  1. Moral and Amoral Conceptions of Trust  2. Alternative Conceptions of Generalized Trust  3. Trust and Calculativeness: Reconsidering Oliver Williamson on Trust  Part 2: The Practice of Trust  4. Trust in the Economic System, with a Schematic History  5. The Practical Problems of Trust: The Question of Public Trust in Business, and Restoring Trust in Financial Services (or not)  6. Trust as an Intrinsic Good, Moral Reason to Trust  7. The Moral Psychology of Trust: Trust Begets Trustworthiness and also Begets Trust in Others

O autorze

Marc A. Cohen is Professor at Seattle University, USA, with a shared appointment in the Department of Management and the Department of Philosophy. His published work has appeared in American Philosophical Quarterly, Social Theory and Practice, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, and The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (2020).