What is it to trust well? How do we do it? If we think of trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness, our understanding of what it is to trust well can be put on an entirely new footing. A Telic Theory of Trust takes up this project, and in doing so, makes use of the core 'trust as performance' idea, developed and refined in substantive detail, in the service of explaining a range of philosophically important questions: the nature and varieties of trust, the evaluative norms that govern good trusting and distrusting (both implicit and deliberative), how trust relates to vulnerability, risk, negligence, and monitoring, as well as to trustworthiness and, more generally, to our practices of cooperation. The result, a telic theory of trust, opens up
new conceptual possibilities and a research agenda in the philosophy of trust that is methodologically in the spirit of virtue epistemology, but which takes on its own distinctive shape.
By:
J. Adam Carter (University of Glasgow)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9780192888969
ISBN 10: 019288896X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1: What Is Good Trusting? 2: Trust as Performance 3: Forbearance and Distrust 4: Trust, Pistology, and the Ethics of Cooperation 5: Deliberative Trust and Convictively Apt Trust 6: Trust, Risk, and Negligence 7: Trust, Vulnerability, and Monitoring 8: Therapeutic Trust 9: Trust and Trustworthiness 10: Conclusions and a Research Agenda
J. Adam Carter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he is the deputy director the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. He has published widely in epistemology, with over 100 articles in leading journals. He is the author of Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing (OUP, 2022). His current work has focused on themes including virtue epistemology, know-how, and the relationship between knowledge and action.
