Reading Group: Trust Across Disciplines (Autumn 2022)

(6 Oct) Philosophy of Trust

• Annette Baier, “Trust and Antitrust” (1986)

• JM Bernstein, “Trust: On the Real but Almost Always Unnoticed, Ever-changing Foundation of Ethical Life” (2011)

(13 Oct) History of Trust

• Geoff Hosking, from Trust: A History (2014)

(20 Oct) Sociology of Trust

• Anthony Giddens, from The Consequences of Modernity (1990)
• Benedict Anderson, from Imagined Communities (1983)

(27 Oct) The Novel and Trust

• Catherine Gallagher, “The Rise of Fictionality” (2006)

(28 Oct) Philosophy of Trust 2 (Special session)

• Danielle Petherbridge, “Recognition, Vulnerability and Trust” (2021)

(3 Nov) Liberalism, Technology, and Trust

• William Davies, “How Statistics Lost Their Power” (2017)

• William Davies, “Why We Stopped Trusting Elites” (2018)

• William Davies, “Why Can’t We Agree on What’s True Any More? (2019)

(10 Nov) Technology, Blockchain, Distributed Trust

• Rachel Botsman, from Who Can You Trust? (2017)

(17 Nov) Law and Trust

• Frank Cross, “Law and Trust” (2005)

(24 Nov) Art and Trust

• Stanley Cavell, “Music Discomposed” (1967)

• Matt Prout, “Art or Shit” (2022)

(1 Dec) Reading and Trust

• Stanley Fish, “Interpretive Communities” (1974)

• Günter Leypoldt, “Reading and the Hermeneutics of Trust” (2021)