Trust : analytic and applied perspectives / / edited by Pekka Makella and Cynthia Townley.

• TeilnehmendeR: Makella, Pekka.; Townley, Cynthia.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 263.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

“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 what 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- TRUST, TRUSTWORTHINESS, AND RESPONSIBILITY / Floora Ruokonen -- TRUSTING INTERPRETATIONS / Karen Jones -- TRUST IN WITTGENSTEIN / Olli Lagerspetz and Lars Hertzberg -- A TRUST-BASED ARGUMENT AGAINST PATERNALISM / Simon Clarke -- TRUST AND RISKY SECRETS / Timo Airaksinen -- PUBLIC TRUST / Cynthia Townley and Jay L. Garfield -- CAN YOU BUY TRUSTWORTHINESS? / Vittorio Pelligra -- DESIRE FOR ESTEEM AS REASON FOR TRUST? / Pekka Mäkelä -- TRUST IN NATURE AND TRUST IN PEOPLE: NECESSITY, CARE, AND RIGHTNESS / Per Ariansen -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.