Faith as Trust

Exploiting Trust in Bad Faith

Trust has been researched from various perspectives, focusing mainly on interpersonal trust in a traditional world of face-toface interaction. Nowadays, technology has changed the ways people interact with each other, and thus the way trust is established or destroyed. Increasingly often we interact with representations of others mediated through technology rather than with people or organizati...

Faith as doxastic venture

A ‘doxastic venture’ model of faith – according to which having faith involves believing beyond what is rationally justifiable – can be defended only on condition that such venturesome believing is both possible and ethically acceptable. I show how a development of the position argued by William James in ‘The will to believe ’ can succeed in meeting these conditions. A Jamesian defence of doxas...

Software Agents in Virtual Organizations: Good Faith and Trust

Virtual organizations tend to play an ever more part in electronic commerce, as well as software agents, here understood as the building blocks of the methodology for problem solving that is being subscribed. Indeed, one of the issues that have to be addressed is the capability of such entities to rationally and autonomously “think” and decide. The behavior of these agents may go more and more ...

In God we trust: faith healing subject to liability.

Trust in Vaccines: Why It Takes More than Good Faith

This Vaccines issue on "Confidence in Vaccines" provides sound evidence through multiple perspectives of life-saving impacts when vaccination programs are effectively implemented in a population. Yet there remain challenges to achieving this impact, including scientific, medical, manufacturing, policy-related and logistical issues. Additionally, socio-cultural, religious and political agendas c...