这本书提供了在极端不确定性中信任的基础。具体来说，它解决了在什么条件下可以信任相对陌生人的问题。作为这类逻辑研究的第一部，这本书打破了我们对信任的许多先入之见，以及导致其澄清的科学方法。它建立在这样一种洞见之上：与普遍的信念相反，解释信任最根本的不是风险，而是自由。事实上，信任是出于自由而给予的自由，一个人对潜在风险的意识只会干扰一个人的信任能力。这本书提出了双重规范性主张，即任何对信任的合理科学关注都必须在其描述中包含自由的概念，而违背自由的逻辑前提的信任理论是先验伪造的。它提出了一个理论建议，确保信任，而不是作为一种被动的、功能性的自然爱的“幻觉”，被理解为一种积极理性的必要产物，这种理性旨在发展人类的自主性。
Metaphysics of Trust: On Freedom and Calculation in Social Cooperation
This book provides the foundations of trust amidst radical uncertainty. Specifically, it addresses the question of under what condition it is possible to trust relative strangers. As the first logical investigation of its kind, the book breaks with many preconceived ideas we have about trust and the scientific method that leads to its clarification. It builds on the insight that, contrary to widespread belief, it is not risk but freedom that is most fundamental for explaining trust. In fact, trust is the giving of freedom, out of freedom, and one’s consciousness of the potential risks involved merely disturbs one’s ability to trust. The book makes the twofold normative claim that any legitimate scientific preoccupation with trust must necessarily include the concept of freedom in its account, and that theories of trust that run against the logical prerequisites of freedom are a-priori falsified. It presents a theoretical proposal that makes sure that trust, instead of being constructed as a passive and functional “illusion” of natural love, is understood as the necessary product of an active reason that is oriented towards developing human autonomy.
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