An overview on trust and trustworthiness: individual and institutional dimensions

An overview on trust and trustworthiness: individual and institutional dimensionsPhilosophical Psychology is dedicating this issue on trust and trustworthiness to Katherine Hawley (1971Hawley ( -2021) ) for two reasons.First, she was an expert in the area.Hawley was one of the most relevant voices in the philosophical debate on trust, distrust, trustworthiness, and untrustworthiness.Second, she was a role model for professional philosophers who engage with world problems and collaborate with scientists (Brown, 2023).She authored two books for nonspecialist readers (Hawley, 2012(Hawley, , 2019)), worked for various non-academic institutions, and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects, offering her expertise on how to be trustworthy (which is the title of one of her books).This dedication comes with a disclaimer.This journal is interdisciplinary, publishing philosophical work informed by cognitive science and psychology in general, and we are aware that the psychological dimensions of trustworthiness do not fall within the scope of Hawley's work.Our goal was not to collect discussion pieces on Hawley's work, but to dedicate a collection of new and diverse papers on the dimensions of trustworthiness to a philosopher who has made a major contribution to the subject.Nevertheless, as I will briefly illustrate in this introduction, most of the papers collected here do deal with claims and ideas from Hawley's work.And the contributions to this special issue