Paul Faulkner
BA Cambridge, MA KCL, PhD UCL
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Philosophy
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paul.faulkner@sheffield.ac.uk
45 Victoria Street
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Paul Faulkner
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
- 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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Featured publications
Books
- Knowledge on Trust. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edited books
Journal articles
- Collective and extended knowledge. Philosophical Issues.
- Communicating your point of view. European Journal of Philosophy.
- The presumption of assurance. Synthese, 199(3-4), 6391-6406.
- Lockdown: a case study in how to lose trust and undermine compliance. Global Discourse / Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, 11(3), 497-515.
- 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.
- Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power: Løgstrup's Critique of Kierkegaard. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 40(1), 147-182.
- What are we doing when we are training?. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 13(3-4), 348-362.
- Finding Trust in Government. Journal of Social Philosophy, 49(4), 626-644.
- Fake Barns, Fake News. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 7(6), 16-21.
- Giving the Benefit of the Doubt. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(2), 139-155.
- Collective Testimony and Collective Knowledge. Ergo, 5(4), 103-126.
- The attitude of trust is basic. Analysis, 75(3), 424-429.
- 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.
Chapters
- Trust and Testimony, The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (pp. 329-340). Routledge
- Trust and testimony, The 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, What is Ethically Demanded?: K. E. Logstrup's Philosophy of Moral Life (pp. 237-254).
- Agency and Disagreement In Reider P (Ed.), Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing Epistemic Agency (pp. 75-91). London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
- Lying and Deceit, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics Wiley
- 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/encyclopaedia entries
All publications
Books
- Knowledge on Trust. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edited books
Journal articles
- Collective and extended knowledge. Philosophical Issues.
- Communicating your point of view. European Journal of Philosophy.
- The presumption of assurance. Synthese, 199(3-4), 6391-6406.
- Lockdown: a case study in how to lose trust and undermine compliance. Global Discourse / Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, 11(3), 497-515.
- 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.
- Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power: Løgstrup's Critique of Kierkegaard. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 40(1), 147-182.
- What are we doing when we are training?. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 13(3-4), 348-362.
- Finding Trust in Government. Journal of Social Philosophy, 49(4), 626-644.
- Fake Barns, Fake News. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 7(6), 16-21.
- Giving the Benefit of the Doubt. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(2), 139-155.
- Collective Testimony and Collective Knowledge. Ergo, 5(4), 103-126.
- The attitude of trust is basic. Analysis, 75(3), 424-429.
- 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(Special Issue 6).
- 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.
- Can We Agree to Disagree?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 39, 282-285.
- Cooperation and trust in conversational exchanges. Theoria, 1(23), 23-34.
- 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.
Chapters
- Trust and Testimony, The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (pp. 329-340). Routledge
- Trust and testimony, The 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, What is Ethically Demanded?: K. E. Logstrup's Philosophy of Moral Life (pp. 237-254).
- Agency and Disagreement In Reider P (Ed.), Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing Epistemic Agency (pp. 75-91). London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
- Lying and Deceit, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics Wiley
- Epistemology of testimony, PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR PRAGMATICS (pp. 82-84).
- 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.
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries