TRUST : analytic and applied perspectives / edited by Pekka Mäkelä and Cynthia Townley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives writes Sissela Bok. Although trust is ubiquitous, understanding trust is a non-trivial challenge. Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives addresses critical and analytical issues of trust. It examines trust from a conceptual perspective as well as considers it in practical contexts ranging from the public sphere broadly understood to particular social institutions, such as universities and medical care. Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives explores Show morewhat kind of good trust is, what kind of goods it can protect and how it can bring about goods, and develops subtle distinctions between trust and other virtues, and between trust and other forms of dependence. The pluralism of the volume reflects the diversity of the real world contexts and theoretical perspectives indispensable in the search of a deeper understanding of trust. Without such an understanding of the nature of trust and the good reasons why people might trust one another or the institutions, we are in danger of designing institutions that will reduce trust or even drive it out. Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives sheds new light on the intersecting dimensions of our social cooperation, in which trust can be responsibly undertaken.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Editors' Introduction; ONE Trust, Trustworthiness, and Responsibility; 1. Trust as Encapsulated Interest; 2. Hardin's Analysis of Trustworthiness; 3. Trust as Entrusting; 4. Trust as an Affective Attitude; 5. Components of Trustworthiness; 6. From Competence, Trust-responsiveness, and Goodwill to Responsibility; 7. Trust and Responsibility; 8. A Strong Account of Trust and Trustworthiness; TWO Trusting Interpretations; 1. Trust and Interpretation; 2. Trust and Trusting Interpretations; THREE Trust in Wittgenstein; 1. On Psychological Expressions.

2. The Use of ""Trust""3. Certainty and Evidence; 4. Summary; FOUR A Trust-Based Argument Against Paternalism; 1. The Trust Argument; 2. Justifying the Trust Condition; 3. Is it Reasonable to Trust Paternalistic Government?; 4. Conclusion; FIVE Trust and Risky Secrets; 1. Dangerous Mistrust; 2. The Risks of Shared Secrets; 3. The Risks of Trust; 4. Undisclosed Secrets and Social Power; 5. Lost Secrets: A Pro-Surveillance Argument as a Test Case; SIX Public Trust; 1. Trust, Reliance and Reactive Attitudes; 2. Institutions and Trust; 3. Why Public Trust is Important; 4. The Limits of Trust.

5. Modernity, Community, and TrustSEVEN Can You Buy Trustworthiness?; 1. The Birth of a Market; 2. Trust, Trustworthiness, and Incentive; 3. The Experiment; 4. Market for Trustworthiness?; 5. Conclusions; EIGHT Desire for Esteem as Reason for Trust?; 1. The Notion of Trust; 2. Mechanisms of Trustworthiness: Loyalty, Virtue, and Prudence; 3. Trust-responsiveness Mechanism; 4. Discussion; NINE Trust in Nature and Trust in People: Necessity, Care, and Rightness; About the Contributors; Index.

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