This edited volume features discussions by leading scholars on the topic of trust and its place in moral psychology. The contributors cover theoretical and applied issues relating to trust, including trust and distrust in conditions of oppression, trust and technology, and trust in medical ethics.

Is it good to be trusting, or should we be wary of trusting others? Trust seems to be the basis of large-scale social cooperation and even of democracy itself, but in recent years many commentators and researchers have lamented the dawn of a post-trust era. Edited by David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanović, and Mark Alfano, The Moral Psychology of Trust examines trust from a variety of perspectives in philosophy and the social sciences. The contributors explore topics such as the nature of trust and its connection to a range of other emotions, conditions under which it is good to be trusting and trustworthy, and what role trust might play in our intellectual, moral, and political lives. The chapters apply theoretical perspectives on trust to a number of issues of current concern, including how trust can and should function in conditions of social oppression, trust and technology, trust and conspiracy theories, the place of trust in medical ethics, and the ethics of trust in a variety of interpersonal relationships.

Introduction: The Centrality of Trust in Moral and Social Life, by David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanović, and Mark Alfano

Part I: Theoretical Issues in the Moral Psychology of Trust

Chapter 1. Trust, Demographic Thresholds, and Cooperation in Social Evolution, by Charles Stanish

Chapter 2. A Phenomenological Analysis of Trust and Betrayal, by J. Keeping

Chapter 3. Trusting is Believing, by Miriam Schleifer McCormick

Chapter 4. Trusting Our Moral Intuitions, by Nenad Miščević

Chapter 5. On the Human Necessity of Trusting: A Case for Viewing Trust as a Neo-Aristotelian Virtue, by Tiger Ziyu Zheng

Chapter 6. Trust, Mistrust, and Autonomy, by Edward Hinchman and Andrea Westlund

Part II: Trust and Distrust in Conditions of Oppression

Chapter 7. Towards a Feminist Theory of Distrust, by Hale Demir-Doğuoğlu and Carolyn McLeod

Chapter 8. Self-Deception, Strategic Self-Distrust, and Oppression, by Jordan MacKenzie

Chapter 9. Dialogical Trust and Procedural Justice, by Natalie Stoljar

Part III: Trust in Organizations, Institutions, and Technology

Chapter 10. The Psychological Dynamics of Trust, With Applications to the Crisis of Trust in Organizations, by Marc A. Cohen

Chapter 11. Conspiracy Theories and Public Trust, by Brian L. Keeley

Chapter 12. Engineering Trustworthiness in the Online Environment, by Hugh Desmond

Chapter 13. OK, Google, Can I Trust You? An Anti-Trust Argument for Antitrust, by Trystan S. Goetze

Chapter 14. Institutional Trust in Medicine in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Michał Klincewicz

Part IV: Applied Issues of Interpersonal Trust

Chapter 15. Trusting at the End: Mosaic Trust and Dementia, by Em Walsh

Chapter 16. Trust, Attachment, and Monogamy, by Andrew Kirton and Natasha McKeever

Chapter 17. Trust in the Artist and the Audience: Aesthetic Virtue and the Hermeneutics of Faith, by David Collins and Iris Vidmar Jovanović