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Trust is a central part of our daily lives as social and rational animals: we trust friends and partners, experts, and our devices; sometimes we even say that our devices trust other devices. But what is trust? What is it good for, and under what conditions? When is trust warranted? How is trusting agents different from trusting artifacts or institutions? Our readings and discussions will range widely, covering the significance of trust for our lives in general but especially for inquiry, drawing from psychological literature on trust, extending to applied questions, and comparing trust with similar things such as faith, reliance, and the ancient Greek concept of pistis (together with a discussion in Plato of misology as a disease of trust).
The seminar will be primarily in English, but students are very welcome to participate in German if they are more comfortable doing so: Beiträge auf Deutsch sind gleichwertig willkommen. |
