Trust: A Selected Bibliography

Baier, Annette. “Demoralization, Trust, and the Virtues.” In Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers, edited by Cheshire Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

———. “Sustaining Trust.” In Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

———. “Trust and Antitrust.” Ethics 96, 2 (January 1986 ): 231–60.

———. “Trust and Distrust of Moral Theorists.” In Applied Ethics: A Reader, edited by Earl R. Winkler and Jerrold R. Coombs. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993.

———. “Trust and Its Vulnerabilities.” In Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

———. “Trusting People.” Philosophical Perspectives 6 (1992):137–53. Also reprinted in Moral Prejudices. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Baker, Judith. “Trust and Rationality.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 68 (1987): 1–13.

Bakir, Vian, and David M. Barlow. Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media. Basingstroke, U.K., and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Barber, Bernard. The Logic and Limits of Trust. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983.

Blodgett, Barbara. Lives Entrusted: An Ethic of Trust for Ministry. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.

Bok, Sissela. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

Bryk, Anthony, and Barbara Schneider. Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement. The Rose Series in Sociology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Childs, James. Ethics in Business: Faith at Work. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

———. Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006.

Daukas, N. “Epistemic Trust and Social Location.” Episteme 3, 1–2 (2006): 109–24.

Faulkner, P. “Genealogy of Trust.” Episteme 4, 3 (2007): 305–21.

Farley, Margaret. Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986.

Flores, Fernando, and Robert C. Solomon. “Creating Trust.” Business Ethics Quarterly 8, 2 (April 1998): 205–32.

Friedman, Marilyn. “Diversity, Trust, and Moral Understanding.” In Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers, edited by Cheshire Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Fukuyama, Francis. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Gambetta, Diego, ed. Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations. New York: Blackwell, 1988.

Govier, Trudy. Dilemmas of Trust. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.

———. “Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem.” Hypatia 8, 1 (1993): 99–120.

———. Social Trust and Human Communities. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.

———. “Trust, Distrust, and Feminist Theory.” Hypatia 7, 1 (1992): 16–33.

Gratton, Carolyn. Trusting, Theory and Practice. New York: Crossroad, 1982.

Gula, Richard M. Ethics in Pastoral Ministry. New York: Paulist Press, 1996.

Hardin, Russell. Trust. Cambridge, U.K., and Malden, MA.: Polity, 2006.

———. “Trustworthiness.” Ethics 107 (1996): 26–42.

Hardwig, J. “The Role of Trust in Knowledge.” The Journal of Philosophy 88, 12 (1991): 693–708.

Hertzberg, L. “On the Attitude of Trust.” Inquiry 31 (1988): 307–22.

Hieronymi, P. “The Reasons of Trust.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86, 2 (2008): 213-236.

Hollis, Martin. Trust within Reason. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998.

Holton, R. “Deciding to Trust, Coming to Believe.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72, 2 (1994): 63–76.

Horsburgh, H. J. N. “The Ethics of Trust.” The Philosophical Quarterly 10, 41 (October 1960): 343–54.

Johnson, Peter. Frames of Deceit: A Study of the Loss and Recovery of Public and Private Trust. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Jones, Karen, Russell Hardin, and Lawrence C. Becker. “A Symposium on Trust.” Ethics 107, 1 (1996): 4–61.

Koehn, Daryl, guest editor. Trust and Business: Barriers and Bridges (special issue with 12 articles). Business and Professional Ethics Journal 16, 1-3 (1997).

Koenig, M. A., and P. L. Harris. “The Basics of Epistemic Trust: Reliable Testimony or Reliable Sources?” Episteme 4, 3 (2007): 264–84.

Kohn, Marek. Trust: Self-interest and the Common Good. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kwan, Kai-man. The Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God: A Defense of Holistic Empiricism. New York: Continuum, 2011.

Lagerspetz, Olli. Trust: The Tacit Demand. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

Lehrer, Keith. Self-Trust: A Study of Reason, Knowledge, and Autonomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Luhmann, Niklas. “Familiarity, Confidence, Trust: Problems and Alternatives.” In Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, edited by Diego Gambetta. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

———. Trust and Power: Two Works by Niklas Luhmann. Translated by Howard Davis, John Raffan, Kathryn Rooney Chichester. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979. Originally published in 1974.

Magill, R. Jay. Chic Ironic Bitterness. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press¸ 2007.

Marty, Martin E. Building Cultures of Trust. Grand Rapids, MI.: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2010.

McGeer, V. “Trust, Hope and Empowerment.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86, 2 (2008): 237–54.

Mount, Eric. Covenant, Community, and the Common Good. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1999.

Nickel, P. J. “Trust and Obligation-Ascription.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2007): 309–19.

Niebuhr, H. Richard. The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy. Introduction by James M. Gustafson. Foreword by William Schweiker. Library of Theological Ethics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster, John Knox Press, 1999. Originally published 1963.

Nooteboom, Bart. Trust: Forms, Foundations, Functions, Failures, and Figures. Cheltenham, U.K., and Northampton, MA.: Edward Elgar Pub., 2002.

Nunnally, Shayla C. Trust in Black America: Race, Discrimination, and Politics. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

O’Neill, Onora. Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Pawar, Sheela. Trusting Others, Trusting God: Concepts of Belief, Faith, and Rationality. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.

Pellegrino, E. D., R. M. Veatch, and J. P. Langan. Ethics, Trust and the Professions: Philosophical and Cultural Aspects, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1991.

Potter, Nancy Nyquist. How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Saunders, Mark N. K., Denise Skinner, Graham Dietz, Nicole Gillepie, and Roy J. Lewicki, eds. Organizational Trust: A Cultural Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Seligman, Adam B. The Problem of Trust. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Stackhouse, Max L. Covenant and Commitment. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1997.

Sztompka, Piotr. Trust: A Sociological Theory. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press¸ 1999.

Uslaner, Eric M. The Moral Foundations of Trust. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Volkan, Vamik. Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone Publications, 2004.

Wadell, Paul J. “Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust.” In The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells. 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Warren, Mark. ed. Democracy and Trust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Watson, Sean, and Anthony Moran, eds. Trust, Risk, and Uncertainty. Basingstoke, U.K., and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Webb. M. O. “The Epistemology of Trust and the Politics of Suspicion.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 73 (1992): 390–400.

Williams, Bernard. 1988. “Formal Structures and Social Reality.” In Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, edited by Diego Gambetta. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

The RSF Series on Trust, published by the Russell Sage Foundation includes the books listed below. The Russell Sage Foundation initiative on social trust was supported from November 1995 to November 2005 and was designed to “clarify the nature of trust and understand its role across a wide variety of social relationships.” For more information on this initiative, consult the foundation website: http://www.russellsage.org/research/trust

Braithwaite, Valerie, and Margaret Levi, eds. Trust and Governance. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.

Brehm, John, and Scott Gates. Teaching, Tasks, and Trust: Functions of the Public Executive. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.

Cleary, Matthew R., and Susan C. Stokes. Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.

Cook, Karen S., ed. Trust in Society. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.

Cook, Karen S., Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi. Cooperation without Trust? New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.

Cook, Karen S., Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin, eds. Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.

Cook, Karen S., Chris Snijders, Vincent Buskens, and Coye Cheshiare, eds. eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.

Fine, Gary Alan. Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and Culture. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.

Gambetta, Diego, and Heather Hamill. Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customers’ Trustworthiness. New York: The Russell Safe Foundation, 2005.

Habyarimana, James, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2011.

Hardin, Russell. Distrust. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.

Hardin, Russell, ed. Trust and Trustworthiness. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Kramer, Roderick M., and Karen S Cook, eds. Trust and Distrust in Organizations. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.

Nesse, Randolph M., ed. Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.

Ostrom, Elinor, and James Walker, eds. Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons for Experimental Research. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.

Tyler, Tom R., and Yuen J. Huo. Trust in the Law: Encouraging Public Cooperation with the Police and Courts. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Diane (D.M.) Yeager

After retiring from teaching ethics and philosophical theology in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Diane Yeager is now delighting in a totally new phase of learning as a docent at the Smithsonian's  National Museum of Asian Art.