Zaufanie a stosunki osobiste
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2015
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Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Filozofii UAM
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Trust and Personal Relationships
Abstract
Trust is a pervasive phenomenon in our lives. We trust our
family members and lovers, our physicians and teachers, our politicians
and even strangers on the street. Trust has instrumental value
for us, but at the same time it is often accompanied by risk. This
is the reason why it is important to distinguish trust that is warranted
or justified from blind trust. In order to answer the question
how trust is justified, however, it is crucial to know exactly what is
the fundamental nature of trust. In the paper, I reconstruct three
accounts of trust that operate with the assumption that trust is fundamentally
a mental state – the cognitivist account, the voluntaristic
account and the affect-based account. I argue that all of these
accounts make reference to deeply held intuitions about trust that
are incompatible with each other. As a solution to this unfortunate
dialectical situation, I suggest to give up the assumption that trust
is primarily a mental state. Instead, I argue for a position according
to which trust is best understood as a two-place predicate that characterizes
a specific relationship in which we can stand to each other.
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trust, reliance, trustworthiness, relationships, reasons
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2015, Tom 4, Nr 1,pp. 21-43.