Relationally Responsive Expert Trustworthiness
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Publication Date
2022
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Social epistemologists often operationalize the task of indirectly assessing experts’ trustworthiness to identifying whose beliefs are more reliably true on matters in an area of expertise. Not only does this neglect the philosophically rich space between belief formation and testimonial utterances, it also reduces trustworthiness to reliability. In ethics of trust, by contrast, explicitly relational views of trust include things like good will and responsiveness. One might think that relational aspects can be safely set aside for social epistemology of trust in experts, that such considerations may be relevant for personal relationships but not for expert trustworthiness. Against these claims I argue for the social-epistemic relevance of relational aspects of trust in experts, and to that end I discuss three sorts of considerations – responsively positive, neutral, and negative factors – that can make a difference for expert trustworthiness.
Journal Title
Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
Volume
36
Beginning Page Number
576
Last Page Number
585
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2103475
Recommended Citation
Almassi, Ben, "Relationally Responsive Expert Trustworthiness" (2022). Faculty Authors and Creators Reception. 202.
https://opus.govst.edu/fac/202