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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
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).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

  • References

  • Further reading

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199697342
ISBN-10: 0199697345
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hawley, Katherine
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 173 x 111 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Katherine Hawley
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.08.2012
Gewicht: 0,12 kg
Artikel-ID: 106523228

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