1st Edition

Trust in Epistemology

Edited By Katherine Dormandy Copyright 2020
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.