Overview

Trust is fundamental to epistemology. It features as theoretical bedrock in a broad cross-section of areas including social epistemology, the epistemology of self-trust, feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of science. Yet epistemology has seen little systematic conversation with the rich literature on trust itself. This volume aims to promote and shape this conversation. It encourages epistemologists of all stripes to dig deeper into the fundamental epistemic roles played by trust, and it encourages philosophers of trust to explore the epistemological upshots and applications of their theories. The contributors explore such issues as the risks and necessity of trusting others for information, the value of doing so as opposed to relying on oneself, the mechanisms underlying trust's strange ability to deliver knowledge, whether depending on others for information is compatible with epistemic responsibility, whether self-trust is an intellectual virtue, and the intimate relationship between epistemic trust and social power. This volume, in Routledge's new series on trust research, will be a vital resource to academics and students not just of epistemology and trust, but also of moral psychology, political philosophy, the philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy - and to anyone else wanting to understand our vital yet vulnerable-making capacity to trust others and ourselves for information in a complex world.

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Author:   Katherine Dormandy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781138570030

ISBN 10:   1138570036
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: An Overview of Trust and Some Key Epistemological Applications The Value of Trust and Self-Trust 2. Thomas Simpson, Locke on Trust 3. Elizabeth Fricker, Epistemic and Practical Dependence and the Value of Skills or: Satnavs, Good or Bad? Trust in Testimony 4. John Greco, The Role of Trust in Testimonial Knowledge 5. Arnon Keren, Trust, Preemption and Knowledge 6. Jesper Kallestrup, Groups, Trust and Testimony Trust and Epistemic Responsibility 7. Heidi Grasswick, Reconciling Epistemic Trust and Responsibility 8. Benjamin McCraw, Proper Epistemic Trust as a Responsibilist Virtue 9. Alessandra Tanesini, Virtuous and Vicious Intellectual Self-Trust The Vulnerabilities of Trust 10. Katherine Dormandy, Exploitative Epistemic Trust 11. Mari Mikkola, Self-Trust and Discriminatory Speech List of Contributors Index

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Katherine Dormandy is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Philosophy and Digital Science Center, University of Innsbruck and works on epistemology, the philosophy of trust, and the philosophy of religion.

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