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A Genealogy of Trust
- Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology
- Edinburgh University Press
- Volume 4, Issue 3, 2007
- pp. 305-321
- 10.1353/epi.0.0020
- Article
- Additional Information
In trusting a speaker we adopt a credulous attitude, and this attitude is basic: it cannot be reduced to the belief that the speaker is trustworthy or reliable. However, like this belief, the attitude of trust provides a reason for accepting what a speaker says. Similarly, this reason can be good or bad; it is likewise epistemically evaluable. This paper aims to present these claims and offer a genealogical justification of them.