Some Forms of Trust

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Authors

Willem A. deVries, University of New HampshireFollow

Abstract

Three forms of trust: topic-focused trust, general trust, and personal trust are distinguished. Personal trust is argued to be the most fundamental form of trust, deeply connected with the construction of one’s self. Information technology has posed new problems for us in assessing and developing appropriate forms of the trust that is central to our personhood.

Department

Philosophy

Publication Date

1-2011

Journal Title

Information

Publisher

MDPI

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.3390/info2010001

Document Type

Article

Recommended Citation

“Some Forms of Trust” Information Vol 2, no. 1: 1-16. http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/1/1/

Rights

© 2011 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).