SE 01 E06: Bonus Episode: Trust and Anti-Trust with Corinne Lajoie
Show notes:
This episode discusses the work of philosopher
Annette Baier: “Trust and Anti-Trust” (1986) Ethics, 96.2, 231-260 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2381376
Annette Baier died in 2012.
Other work by Baier:
Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics (1995): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674587168
Baier, Annette C. (1991), “Trust.” Presented at the The Tanner Lectures on Human
Values, Princeton University, March 6. (This is where Baier talks about the good bread being kneaded!)
Guest Producer: Corinne Lajoie
Other works we referenced:
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, esp. Chapters 13, 14 (at Early Modern Texts, Jonathan Bennett, ed.): https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/hobbes1651part1_2.pdf (available in both text and audio formats)
bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Washington Square Press, 2004) (where she discusses her continued use of the term “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”)
On Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “family resemblance” (by Anat Anat Biletzki and Anat Matar): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#LangGameFamiRese
Hungry for more feminist work on trust?
Govier, Trudy. 1992. “Trust, Distrust, and Feminist Theory.” Hypatia 7(1): 16-33.
Grasswick, Heidi. 2017. “Trust and Testimony in Feminist Epistemology.” In Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone, The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
Hawley, Katherine. 2017. “Trust, Distrust, and Epistemic Injustice.” In Ian James Kidd & José Medina, The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice. New York: Routledge.
Potter, Nancy. 2002. How Can I Be Trusted?: A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
More from our contributors:
Carolyn McLeod
2025. “Trust and Belonging.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 1–18. https://doi-org.proxy1.lib.uwo.ca/10.1080/13698230.2025.2528381
2002. Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Amy Mullin
2025. “Pregnancy, Gender Identity, Autonomy and Trust.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (3): 851-870.
2005. “Trust, Social Norms, and Motherhood.” Journal of Social Philosophy 36(3): 316-330.
Laura Specker Sullivan
2023. “Climates of Distrust in Medicine.” Hastings Center Report 53(2): 33-38.
2020. “Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine.” Hastings Center Report 50(1): 18-26.
Hale Demir-Doğuoğlu
Forthcoming. “‘Only Tall Because Somebody’s On Their Knees’: Distrust, Power, and the Pursuit of Invulnerability.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Demir-Doğuoğlu, Hale and Carolyn McLeod. 2023. “Toward a Feminist Theory of Distrust.” In David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanović, Mark Alfano & Hale Demir-Doğuoğlu, The Moral Psychology of Trust. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Our sound editor extraordinaire is Natalie Dusek.
Resources:
Sound:
Pres, Josef. 2024. “Piano loops 128 effect octave long loop” Freesound, https://freesound.org/people/josefpres/sounds/723002/
Seth_Makes_Sounds. 2024. “Brainstatic v1”, Freesound, https://freesound.org/people/Seth_Makes_Sounds/sounds/730699/