Katherine Hawley (University of St Andrews Professor of Philosophy

Trust: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Katherine Hawley explores the key ideas about trust in this Very Short Introduction. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, psychology, and evolutionary biology, she emphasizes the nature and importance of trusting and being trusted, from our intimate bonds with significant others to our relationship with the state.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 111mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9780199697342
• ISBN-10: 0199697345
• Artikelnr.: 35468528

Autorenporträt

Katherine Hawley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews and Head of the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies. She is the author of How Things Persist (OUP, 2001) and co-editor of Philosophy of Science Today (with Peter Clark, OUP, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Trust and distrust at the breakfast table
1: What are trust and distrust?
2: Why trust and trustworthiness matter
3: Evolving trust and cooperation
4: Take the money and run
5: Honesty and dishonesty
6: Knowledge and expertise
7: Trust on the internet
8: Institutions, conspiracies, and nations
Afterword: The importance of being trustworthy
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