Telic Theory of Trust

A Telic Theory of Trust approaches trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness. J. Adam Carter shows how this illuminate the nature of trust, the difference between good and bad trusting, and practices of cooperation in general.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

A Telic Theory of Trust approaches trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness. J. Adam Carter shows how this illuminate the nature of trust, the difference between good and bad trusting, and practices of cooperation in general.

Product details

• Authors: Carter , J. Adam Carter, J. Adam (University of Glasgow) Carter, Carter J. Adam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2024
• EAN: 9780192888969
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288896-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge