• University of Leeds
    School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science
    Inter-disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre
    Lecturer
University of Manchester
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2018
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Areas of Specialization
Trust
  •  58
    Corporations, Business and Social Trust
    British Council Research Reports. 2019.
    At a time when nationalism is rising and support for democratic values is declining, this paper considers the role that businesses and corporations play in building and undermining social trust. It was published as part of the Future of the Corporation programme led by the British Academy.
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    Trust, Attachment, and Monogamy
    In David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanović & Mark Alfano (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Trust, Lexington Books. pp. 295-312. 2023.
    The norm of monogamy is pervasive, having remained widespread, in most Western cultures at least, in spite of increasing tolerance toward more diverse relationship types. It is also puzzling. People willingly, and often with gusto, adhere to it, yet it is also, prima facie at least, highly restrictive. Being in a monogamous relationship means agreeing to give up certain sorts of valuable interactions and relationships with other people and to severely restrict one’s opportunities for sex and lov…Read more
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    Matters of Trust as Matters of Attachment Security
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (5): 583-602. 2020.
    I argue for an account of the vulnerability of trust, as a product of our need for secure social attachments to individuals and to a group. This account seeks to explain why it is true that, when we trust or distrust someone, we are susceptible to being betrayed by them, rather than merely disappointed or frustrated in our goals. What we are concerned about in matters of trust is, at the basic level, whether we matter, in a non-instrumental way, to that individual, or to the group of which they …Read more
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    Do corporations have a duty to be trustworthy?
    Journal of the British Academy 6 (Supplementary issue 1): 75-129. 2018.
    Since the global financial crisis in 2008, corporations have faced a crisis of trust, with growing sentiment against ‘elites and ‘big business’ and a feeling that ‘something ought to be done’ to re-establish public regard for corporations. Trust and trustworthiness are deeply moral significant. They provide the ‘glue or lubricant’ that begets reciprocity, decreases risk, secures dignity and respect, and safeguards against the subordination of the powerless to the powerful. However, in deciding h…Read more
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    Matters of Interpersonal Trust
    Dissertation, University of Manchester. 2018.
    This thesis defends an account of what it is to trust other people, and what gives matters of trust (i.e. situations where we trust/distrust others) a characteristic interpersonal, normative, or moral/ethical importance to us. In other words, it answers what the nature of betrayal (and being susceptible to betrayal) is. Along the way I put forward/defend accounts of the following: the relationship between trust and reliance (chapter 4); an account of reliance itself (chapter 5); trust and distru…Read more