Katherine Hawley duikt met diepgaand onderzoek in de aard en oorsprong van filosofische concepten. Haar werk richt zich vaak op fundamentele vragen binnen de metafysica en epistemologie. Hawley benadert filosofische problemen met analytische strengheid en een toewijding aan duidelijke argumentatie. Ze onderzoekt hoe ons begrip van de wereld wordt gevormd door taal en denken.
Katherine Hawley investigates what trustworthiness means in our lives. We become untrustworthy when we break promises, miss deadlines, or give unreliable information. But we can't be sure about what we can commit to. Hawley examines the social obstacles to trustworthiness, and explores how we can steer between overcommitment and undercommitment.
Katherine Hawley explores the key ideas about trust in this Very Short Introduction. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, psychology, and evolutionary biology, she emphasizes the nature and importance of trusting and being trusted, from our intimate bonds with significant others to our relationship with the state.
Philosophy of Science Today offers a state-of-the-art guide to this fast-developing area. An eminent international team of authors covers a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences, including causation, realism, methodology, epistemology, and the philosophical foundations of physics, biology, and psychology.