Promises and Agreements: Philosophical Essays [Hardcover]

This volume, which comprises sixteen original contributions, is the first collection of philosophical papers on promises and agreements -- topics enjoying a renaissance in social, moral, and legal philosophy.Promises and agreements are everywhere; we make, receive, keep, and break them on a daily basis. The quest to understand these social practices is integral to understanding ourselves as social creatures. The study of promises and agreements is enjoying a renaissance in many areas of social philosophy, including philosophy of language, action theory, normative ethics, value theory, and legal philosophy. This volume is the first collection of philosophical papers on promises and agreements, bringing together sixteen original self-standing contributions to the philosophical literature. The contributors highlight some of the more interesting aspects of the ubiquitous social phenomena of promises and agreements from different philosophical perspectives.PrefaceContributorsAnnotated Table of Contents1. Introduction: Understanding Promises and Agreements,Hanoch Sheinman2. The Problem with Promising,David Owens3.Three Dogmas about Promising,Margaret Gilbert4. Is Promising a Practice and Nothing More?,Stan Husi5. The Importance of Self-Promises,Connie Rosati6. On Coerced Promises,Eric Chwang7. Promising Too Much,Julia Driver8. The Value of Making and Keeping Promises,Michael Smith9. Act-Utilitarianism and Promises,Alastair Norcross10. Promises and Rule Consequentialism,Brad Hooker11. Demystifying Promises,Stephen Darwall12. Promises and Trust,Daniel Friedrich and Nicholas Southwood13. Promise as an Arm's Length Relation,Daniel Markovits14. Sidgwick on Promises,David Philips15. Contractarianism and Emergency,Yitzhak Benbaji16. Agreement as Joint Promise,Hanoch SheinmanSubject IndexName IndexHanoch Sheinmanis Assistl“: