Moore, Alfred James orcid.org/0000-0002-7252-5039 and MacKenzie, Michael (2024) As-if Trust. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. ISSN 1743-8772
Abstract
A lot of what we understand to be trust is not trust; it is, instead, an active and conscious decision to feign trust. We call this ‘as-if’ trust. If trust involves taking on risks and vulnerabilities, as-if trust involves taking on surplus risks and vulnerabilities. People may decide to act as if they trust in many situations, even when they do not have sufficient warrant to trust – which is to say even when they do not trust. Likewise, people might decide to act as if they trust even when they have good reasons to actively distrust. The surplus risks of as-if trust may be worth taking in a number of different contexts and for many reasons. We argue that as-if trust is a concept that should be added to our theoretical, practical, and political vocabularies of trust and distrust. In doing so, we discuss the main reasons for someone to act as if they trust. We then show that the practice of as-if trust has been recognized by other scholars but treated as trust. In response, we clarify how as-if trust differs from trust, and we discuss the utility and ubiquity of as-if trust, especially in politics.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2024 17:00 |
Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2025 00:13 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2024.2423141 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13698230.2024.2423141 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219435 |
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