Acknowledgements 1 Trust and our worries with it Trust and reason: Friends or foes? On how to write about what trust ‘is' The need for reflexivity Current issues Trust and reliance Normative and non-normative conceptions of trust What happens next? 2 Trust and Hobbesian reason The Hobbesian dilemma Trust as risk management A game-theoretic solution Critique of game theory: The need for a social framework Trustworthiness and encapsulated interests Is this trust? – A caveat Trust and strategic reason, and where to go from here The metaphysics of interests 3 Vulnerability and entrusting Baier’s ambiguous critique of rationalism The theory of trust as entrusting Entrusting and simple trust Factual and ethical vulnerability The notion of possibility Vulnerability revisited A Novel from the 21st Century Trusting and being trusted 4 The time dimension Methodological timelessness Prisoners’ Dilemma revisited Timelessness in non-formal treatments of trust Assessing probability Trust as an interpretative activity Normality in ongoing interaction Methodological timelessness and methodological individualism 5 ‘Trust’ as an organizing tool Is trust a psychological state? The ‘dys-appearance’ of trust First- and third-person perspectives The need for challenge Conclusion 6 Communication, truthfulness, trust Communication as manipulation and mindreading The testimony debate The norm of truthfulness Løgstrup: Trust in conversation ‘Image’ vs real presence The place of ‘trust’ in different ideas of language 7 Basic trust Trust as a response to scepticism A self-deception theory of basic trust Paranoia and scepticism ‘The substratum of all my enquiring and asserting’ Meeting the other in trust: Weil and Løgstrup Ideas of basic trust in context 8 Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

A very welcome addition to the discussion of a topic that is increasingly recognized as crucial to an adequate understanding of agency, rationality and ethics. Lagerspetz offers a useful survey of philosophical views of the place and importance of trust in human life, while making his own distinctive and valuable contribution to the discussion. This is essential reading for all working in these and related areas.

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