Untrustworthiness

Tallant, Jonathan

Abstract

Discussions of trustworthiness are not ubiquitous in the philosophical literature (compare remarks by Jones 2012, 61). Nonetheless, there are some attempted analyses and there is excellent work ongoing. The goal of this paper is to focus on trustworthiness's even less discussed opposite: untrustworthiness. So far as I can tell, the concept has gone largely undiscussed in the philosophical literature. This is unfortunate. For, just as Hawley (2014) points out that a theory of trust must be rendered compatible with a theory of distrust, so (I claim) a theory of trustworthiness must be rendered compatible with a theory of untrustworthiness. A further wrinkle to be introduced along the way is the need for a further distinction: cases where we must talk, not of trustworthiness or untrustworthiness, but of neither.

Citation

Tallant, J. (2025). Untrustworthiness. Ratio, 38(1), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12435

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 18, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jan 7, 2025
• Publication Date: 2025-03
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 8, 2027
• Journal: Ratio
• Print ISSN: 0034-0006
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-9329
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56-62
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12435
• Keywords: distrust; trust; trustworthiness; untrustworthiness
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/43093896
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rati.12435