Paul Faulkner
BA Cambridge, MA KCL, PhD UCL
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Philosophy
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         Paul Faulkner
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
          
      
  
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
- Profile
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    I have been a member of the Department since September 2001; after a two-year lectureship at University College London, where I took my doctorate. 
- Research interests
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    - Epistemology
- Testimony
- Trust
- Second-personal attitudes
- Emotions
- Action
- Disagreement
- Faith
- Social Epistemology
- Conversion
- Science
 
- Publications
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    Show: Featured publications All publications Featured publicationsBooks-   Knowledge on Trust. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
					    
 Edited booksJournal articles-  Collective and extended knowledge. Philosophical Issues. 
					    
-  Communicating your point of view. European Journal of Philosophy, 30(2), 661-675. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  The presumption of assurance. Synthese, 199(3-4), 6391-6406. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Lockdown: a case study in how to lose trust and undermine compliance. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, 11(3), 497-515. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  The exchange of words. The Philosophical Review, 130(1), 167-171. 
					    
-  The nature and rationality of conversion. European Journal of Philosophy, 27(4), 821-836. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Indirect communication, authority, and proclamation as a normative power: Løgstrup's critique of Kierkegaard. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 40(1), 147-179. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  What are we doing when we are training?. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 13(3-4), 348-362. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Finding trust in government. Journal of Social Philosophy, 49(4), 626-644. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Fake barns, fake news. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 7(6), 16-21. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Giving the benefit of the doubt. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(2), 139-155. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Collective Testimony and Collective Knowledge. Ergo, 5(4), 103-126. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  The attitude of trust is basic. Analysis, 75(3), 424-429. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  A Virtue Theory of Testimony. Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society, 114(2), 189-211. 
					    
-  Really Trying or Merely Trying. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 41(3), 363-380. 
					    
-  The moral obligations of trust. Philosophical Explorations, 17(3), 332-345. 
					    
-  Two-Stage Reliabilism, Virtue Reliabilism, Dualism and the Problem of Sufficiency. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2(8), 121-138. 
					    
-  The practical rationality of trust. Synthese, 191(9), 1975-1989. 
					    
-  A Genealogy of Trust. Episteme, 4, 305-321. 
					    
-  On Telling and Trusting. Mind, 116, 875-902. 
					    
-  A Genealogy of Trust. Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 4(3), 305-321. 
					    
-  What is Wrong with Lying?. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 75, 535-557. 
					    
-  Understanding Knowledge Transmission. Ratio, 19, 156-175. 
					    
-  On Dreaming and Being Lied To. Episteme, 2, 149-159. 
					    
-  On the rationality of our response to testimony. Synthese, 131(3), 353-370. 
					    
-  The Social Character of Testimonial Knowledge. Journal of Philosophy, 97, 581-601. 
					    
-  David Hume’s Reductionist Epistemology of Testimony. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79, 302-313. 
					    
 Book chapters-  Testimony and trust In Simon J (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (pp. 329-340). Routledge View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Trust and testimony, Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (pp. 329-340). 
					    
-  The Problem of Trust In Faulkner P & Simpson T (Ed.), The Philosophy of Trust (pp. 109-129). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
					    
-  Is Taxation on a Par with Force Labour? In Peeters B, Gribnau H & Badisco J (Ed.), Building Trust in Taxation (pp. 73-88). Intersentia 
					    
-  Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand In Fink H & Stern R (Ed.), What is Ethically Demanded? K.E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life (pp. 237-254). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Agency and Disagreement In Reider P (Ed.), Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing the Epistemic Agent (pp. 75-91). Rowman and Littlefield International View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Lying and Deceit, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics Wiley View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Norms of Trust In Haddock A, Millar A & Pritchard D (Ed.), Social Epistemology OUP Oxford 
					    
-  Introduction (pp. 1-4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC 
					    
 Dictionary or encyclopaedia entriesAll publicationsBooks-   Trust and Cooperation. Oxford University Press. 
					    
-   Knowledge on Trust. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
					    
 Edited booksJournal articles-  On the nature of faith and its relation to trust and belief. The Monist, 106(1), 61-71. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Collective and extended knowledge. Philosophical Issues. 
					    
-  Communicating your point of view. European Journal of Philosophy, 30(2), 661-675. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  The presumption of assurance. Synthese, 199(3-4), 6391-6406. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Lockdown: a case study in how to lose trust and undermine compliance. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, 11(3), 497-515. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  The exchange of words. The Philosophical Review, 130(1), 167-171. 
					    
-  The nature and rationality of conversion. European Journal of Philosophy, 27(4), 821-836. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Indirect communication, authority, and proclamation as a normative power: Løgstrup's critique of Kierkegaard. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 40(1), 147-179. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  What are we doing when we are training?. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 13(3-4), 348-362. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Finding trust in government. Journal of Social Philosophy, 49(4), 626-644. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Fake barns, fake news. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 7(6), 16-21. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Giving the benefit of the doubt. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(2), 139-155. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Collective Testimony and Collective Knowledge. Ergo, 5(4), 103-126. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  The attitude of trust is basic. Analysis, 75(3), 424-429. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  A Virtue Theory of Testimony. Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society, 114(2), 189-211. 
					    
-  Really Trying or Merely Trying. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 41(3), 363-380. 
					    
-  The moral obligations of trust. Philosophical Explorations, 17(3), 332-345. 
					    
-  Two-Stage Reliabilism, Virtue Reliabilism, Dualism and the Problem of Sufficiency. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2(8), 121-138. 
					    
-  The practical rationality of trust. Synthese, 191(9), 1975-1989. 
					    
-  Replies. Abstracta : Linguagem, Mente e Ação, 2012(VI), 117-137. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Precis "Knowledge on Trust". Abstracta(Special Issue 6). 
					    
-  Trust and the Assessment of Credibility. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 1(8), 1-6. 
					    
-  Review: Carson, "Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice". Ethics, 121, 799-803. 
					    
-  Review: Lackey, "Learning from Words". Mind: a quarterly review of philosophy, 118(470), 479-485. 
					    
-  Cooperation and trust in conversational exchanges. Theoria, 1(23), 23-34. 
					    
-  Can We Agree to Disagree?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 39, 282-285. 
					    
-  A Genealogy of Trust. Episteme, 4, 305-321. 
					    
-  On Telling and Trusting. Mind, 116, 875-902. 
					    
-  A Genealogy of Trust. Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 4(3), 305-321. 
					    
-  What is Wrong with Lying?. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 75, 535-557. 
					    
-  Understanding Knowledge Transmission. Ratio, 19, 156-175. 
					    
-  On Dreaming and Being Lied To. Episteme, 2, 149-159. 
					    
-  Relativism and Our Warrant for Scientific Theories. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12, 259-269. 
					    
-  Review: Thinking About Knowing. Mind, 113, 390-394. 
					    
-  Review: Hetherington, "Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge". Mind, 112, 346-349. 
					    
-  Problems of knowledge: A critical introduction to epistemology. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 53(211), 292-295. 
					    
-  On the rationality of our response to testimony. Synthese, 131(3), 353-370. 
					    
-  The Social Character of Testimonial Knowledge. Journal of Philosophy, 97, 581-601. 
					    
-  Testimonial Knowledge. Acta Analytica, 15(24), 127-138. 
					    
-  David Hume’s Reductionist Epistemology of Testimony. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79, 302-313. 
					    
 Book chapters-  Testimony and trust In Simon J (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (pp. 329-340). Routledge View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Trust and testimony, Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (pp. 329-340). 
					    
-  Fiduciary Grounds and Reasons, Fiduciaries and Trust (pp. 17-34). Cambridge University Press 
					    
-  The Problem of Trust In Faulkner P & Simpson T (Ed.), The Philosophy of Trust (pp. 109-129). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
					    
-  Is Taxation on a Par with Force Labour? In Peeters B, Gribnau H & Badisco J (Ed.), Building Trust in Taxation (pp. 73-88). Intersentia 
					    
-  Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand In Fink H & Stern R (Ed.), What is Ethically Demanded? K.E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life (pp. 237-254). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Agency and Disagreement In Reider P (Ed.), Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing the Epistemic Agent (pp. 75-91). Rowman and Littlefield International View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Lying and Deceit, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics Wiley View this article in WRRO 
					    
-  Epistemology of testimony, Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights (pp. 82-84). John Benjamins Publishing Company 
					    
-  Norms of Trust In Haddock A, Millar A & Pritchard D (Ed.), Social Epistemology OUP Oxford 
					    
-  Introduction (pp. 1-4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC 
					    
-  The Epistemic Role of Trust, Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice (pp. 30-38). Springer 
					    
 Book reviews-  Epistemology of Testimony. 
					    
-  Review: Kusch, "Knowledge by Agreement". Philosophical Books, 47(1), 81-85. 
					    
 Digital contentDictionary or encyclopaedia entries
-   Knowledge on Trust. Oxford: Oxford University Press.