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Trust and its significance in social epistemology
J. Adam CarterDraft version. September 2020. For J. Lackey & A. McGlynn (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming)
This chapter critically discusses the significance of trust and its theoretical cognates-distrust , trustworthiness and distrustworthiness-in social epistemology. Special focus is given to the following issues: (i) knowledge on trust; (ii) the entitlement to expect to be presumed trustworthy; (iii) the normativity of trusting; and the role of defective trust and distrust in cases of (iv) epistemic injustice; and (v) the uptake and spread of conspiracy theories.
