
A Telic Theory of Trust
J. Adam Carter(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 23. May 2024
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-19-288896-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Concluding with areas in which his theory might be applied, this book is technical and rigorous. It is critical reading for all philosophers who think about trust. * J. A. Simmons, CHOICE * Carter's book is well worth engaging with for any philosopher working on trust and trustworthiness. Carter's evaluative framework is novel, wellthought-out and plausible. He also makes several interesting observations about therapeutic trust and trustworthiness, especially in the final two chapters, which reveal just how underexplored these phenomena are in the current debates. * Joshua Kelsall, Metascience * Carter's book is well worth engaging with for any philosopher working on trust and trustworthiness. He also makes several interesting observations about therapeutic trust and trustworthiness, especially in the final two chapters, which reveal just how underexplored these phenomena are in the current debates. * Joshua Kelsall, Metascience *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-288896-9 (9780192888969)
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A Telic Theory of Trust
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Person
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.
Content
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
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