1 option
Promises and agreements : philosophical essays / edited by Hanoch Sheinman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Promises.
- Contracts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: understanding 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 promises / Alastair Norcross
- Promises and rule consequentialism / Brad Hooker
- Demystifying promises / Stephen Darwell
- Daniel Friedrich & promises and trust / Nicholas Southwood
- Promise as an arm's length relation / Daniel Markovits
- On promises / David Philips Sidgwick
- Contractarianism and emergency / Yitzhak Benbaji
- Agreement as joint promise / Hanoch Sheinman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-34878-0
- 9786613348784
- 0-19-970327-2
- OCLC:
- 922970280
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.