Trust Within Limits

There have two recent challenges to the orthodoxy that X trusts Y to O' is the fundamental notion of trust. Domenicucci and Holton maintain that trust, like love and friendship, is fundamentally two-place. Paul Faulkner argues to the more radical conclusion that the one-place X is trusting' is explanatorily basic. I argue that X trusts Y in domain D' is the explanatorily basic notion. I make the case that only by thinking of trust as domain-specific can wemake sense of the relationships between trust and belief in goodwill, trust and distrust, and trust and trustworthiness. In addition, by modeling trust as essentially domain-specific we can account for the way in which wise trust in others is finely discriminating.