Trust

Abstract

This entry offers a taxonomy of accounts of trust and trustworthiness organized along two axes. The first concerns the attitude or stance that an account takes trust to be, whether action, belief, affect, or some combination. The second concerns the motivation that an account claims is tacitly ascribed to the one trusted, where accounts can range from the thin, which claim that trust presupposes no particular motivation on the part of the one trusted, to the thick, which claim that trust imputes good will, and many positions in between. A range of contemporary accounts of trust are surveyed within the framework of this taxonomy. The entry also explores the value of trust and the disvalue of ..