When Monitoring Facilitates Trust

AbstractIt is often taken for granted that monitoring stands in some kind of tension with trusting (e.g., Hieronymi2008; Wanderer and Townsend2013; Nguyenforthcoming; McMyler2011, Castelfranchi and Falcone2000; Frey1993; Dasgupta1988, Litzky et al.2006) — especially three-place trust (i.e., A trusts B to X), but sometimes also two-place trust (i.e., A trusts B, see, e.g., Baier1986). Using a case study involving relationship breakdown, repair, and formation, I will argue there are some ways in which monitoring can be conducive to two-place trust, and to instances of three-place trust that are likely to be repeated over time —especially when previously established two-place trust has broken down. The result, I hope, is not any kind of abandoning of the important idea that monitoring can undermine trust, but an appreciation of where the conflict between monitoring and trustdoesn ’t lie – one from which future work will hopefully be better positioned to illuminate where exactly the conflict is.
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research