Trust is pervasive in our lives. Both our simplest actions - like buying a coffee, or crossing the street - as well as the functions of large collective institutions - like those of corporations and nation states - would not be possible without it. Yet only in the last several decades has trust started to receive focused attention from philosophers as a specific topic of investigation. The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy brings together 31 never-before published chapters, accessible for both students and researchers, created to cover the most salient topics in the various theories of trust. The Handbook is broken up into three sections:

I. What is Trust?

II. Whom to Trust?

III. Trust in Knowledge, Science, and Technology

The Handbook is preceded by a foreword by Maria Baghramian, an introduction by volume editor Judith Simon, and each chapter includes a bibliography and cross-references to other entries in the volume.

Author: Judith Simon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/01/2022
Series: Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9781032235707

About the Author

Judith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg, Germany, and member of the German Ethics Council.