INTRODUCTION
Trust is commonly taken by philosophers to be a metaphysically-hybrid notion involving an attitude and an action (Faulkner 2015; Hawley 2012). The action component of trust is typically defined as a special form of reliance in which the trustor has: (1) heightened expectations of their trustee; and (2) a disposition to justifiably feel betrayed if their trust is broken by their trustee (Baier 1986; Jones 2004; Hawley 2012; McLeod 2015). The first aim of this paper is to reject this trust-as-reliance intuition. The second aim of this paper is to develop a non-reliance account of trust …
Joshua Kelsall, Towards a Non-Reliance Commitment Account of Trust, Journal of Value Inquiry (2024). Published: 28 May 2024.
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