v12n2: Pouryousefi and Tallant on Kim and Routledge on Trust
Posted: September 16, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
“Trust, the Participant Stance, and Firms,” by Sareh Pouryousefi and Jonathan Tallant
A COMMENTARY ON T. W. Kim and B. R. Routledge (2022), “Why a Right to an Explanation of Algorithmic Decision-Making Should Exist: A Trust-Based Approach,” Bus Ethics Q 32(1): 75–102 https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.3
Kim and Routledge (2022) offer a normative account of trust in firms, drawing on a philosophical approach to trust, “the participant stance.” This Commentary raises a challenge to Kim and Routledge. For a participant stance view of trust to be applicable to firms, we argue that firms must be seen as fitting targets and sources of reactive attitudes in morally relevant trust relationships. It is far from clear that firms are a fitting target within Kim and Routledge’s account..
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Sareh Pouryousefi is an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research focuses on the normative foundations of business ethics and she carries out this work in close engagement with social scientific research.
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