ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the disagreement in trust concerns cases where trust and distrust are contrasted, cases where some trust and neither trust nor distrusts. The disagreement debate has often focused on epistemic peers, but it worth remarking that it is a mistake to think that disagreement only concerns peers. Disagreement in trust is a practically and theoretically important problem, though it has received almost no attention. The higher-order evidence view of disagreement in trust applies the ideas to disagreement in trust. Curious as this may sound, these features of the bracketing view of trust actually fits perfectly well with what seems a natural view about the value of trust. One way in which trust seems valuable is that once it is established it allows for a cognitively cheap and yet successful modes of interpersonal interaction in environments where those you tend to trust are in fact generally trustworthy, and where evidence that they are not is absent or misleading.