Trust from the enlightenment to the digital enlightenment
Trust from the enlightenment to the digital enlightenment
A conceptual analysis of trust in terms of trustworthiness is set out, where trustworthiness is the property of an agent that she does what she claims she will do, and trust is an attitude taken by an agent to another, that the former believes that the latter is trustworthy. This analysis is then used to explore issues in the deployment of trustworthy digital systems online. The ideas of a series of philosophers from the Enlightenment – Hobbes, Burke, Rousseau, Hume, Smith and Kant – are examined in the light of this exploration to suggest how we might proceed in the Digital Enlightenment to ensure that systems are both trustworthy and trusted.
trust, trustworthiness
169-183
O'Hara, Kieron
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2012
O'Hara, Kieron
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O'Hara, Kieron
(2012)
Trust from the enlightenment to the digital enlightenment.
In,
Bus, Jacques, Crompton, Malcolm, Hildebrandt, Mireille and Metakides, George
(eds.)
Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2012.
Luxembourg, LU.
IOS Press, .
(doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-057-4-169).
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A conceptual analysis of trust in terms of trustworthiness is set out, where trustworthiness is the property of an agent that she does what she claims she will do, and trust is an attitude taken by an agent to another, that the former believes that the latter is trustworthy. This analysis is then used to explore issues in the deployment of trustworthy digital systems online. The ideas of a series of philosophers from the Enlightenment – Hobbes, Burke, Rousseau, Hume, Smith and Kant – are examined in the light of this exploration to suggest how we might proceed in the Digital Enlightenment to ensure that systems are both trustworthy and trusted.
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Published date: 2012
Keywords:
trust, trustworthiness
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 337083
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/337083
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Editor:
Jacques Bus
Editor:
Malcolm Crompton
Editor:
Mireille Hildebrandt
Editor:
George Metakides
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