Comprising 16 original contributions, this is the first collection of philosophical papers on promises and agreements topics which are enjoying a renaissance in social, moral and legal philosophy.
Introduction: promises and agreements / Hanoch Sheinman -- The problem with promising / David Owens -- Three dogmas about promising / Margaret Gilbert -- Is promising a practice and nothing more? / Stan Husi -- The importance of self-promises / Connie Rosati -- On coerced promises / Eric Chwang -- Promising too much / Julia Driver -- The value of making and keeping promises / Michael Smith -- Act-utilitarianism and promisory obligation / Alastair Norcross -- Promises and rule consequentialism / Brad Hooker -- Demystifying promises / Stephen Darwell -- Promises and trust / Daniel Friedrich and Nicholas Southwood -- Promise as an arm's length relation / Daniel Markovits -- Sidgwick on promises / David Philips -- Contractarianism and emergency / Yitzhak Benbaji -- Agreement as joint promise / Hanoch Sheinman.