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SUMMARY:Restoring Trust in Finance? - Marco Meyer &amp\; Jens van 't Kloos
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DTSTART:20150428T193000Z
DTEND:20150428T200000Z
UID:TALK57331@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Paulina Rowicka
DESCRIPTION:After the financial crisis\, banks and regulators urge that tr
 ust in the financial system needs to be restored. This suggests a prior tr
 ust relation that has been damaged\, and is worth restoring. The speakers 
 try to make sense of these claims\, and many others\, as PhD students at t
 he Faculty of Philosophy and part of the Cambridge-Groningen Trusting Bank
 s project.\n\nAs philosophers\, Jens and Marco ask what it would mean to t
 rust a complex institution such as a bank\, or even the financial system a
 s a whole\; what the role of trust in finance is and what it means to say 
 that it has broken down. They also ask whether it is a good thing in the f
 irst place when citizens trust financial institutions. Is not rather distr
 ust the appropriate attitude given the repeated misconduct and associated 
 societal costs of these firms?\n\nIn answering these question they not onl
 y discuss philosophical theories of trust\, but bring in perspectives from
  political philosophy\, epistemology\, and the history and philosophy of e
 conomics as well. The aim of the talk is to explain what it means to do ph
 ilosophical research on finance\, and what such research can contribute to
  broader political and social debates.
LOCATION:Senior Palrour\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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