Trust in Public and Private Life
Associate Professor Karen Jones, University of Melbourne
What is trust and is it vital for humans to flourish? Furthermore, what is trustworthiness and how can it be fostered? Associate Professor Karen Jones addresses these central questions and others, which pertain to the philosophy of trust.
Trust, when met with trustworthiness, has instrumental value in enabling co-operation and reducing transaction costs. This includes reducing the need for expensive substitutes for trust – such as monitoring and legal remedies. The value of trust is not only fiscal, but also constitutive of morally significant relationships that make life meaningful, such as love and friendship.
“We were extremely impressed. We particularly liked Dr Jones’ delivery and thought the topic was conceptually very good. ”
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KAREN JONES, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Dr Karen Jones is Associate Professor in Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She received her PhD from Cornell University and has held positions there and at the Australian National University, before joining the University of Melbourne in 2002. Dr Jones has written extensively on trust, including what it is, and when it is justified. She also writes on emotions and rationality, on the problem of moral knowledge, and is coeditor, with Francois Schroeter, of The Many Moral Rationalisms (2018, OUP) and, with Aaron Zimmerman and Mark Timmons, of The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (2019, T&F).
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