Promises and agreements
By: edited by Hanoch Sheinman.
Contributors: Sheinman, Hanoch, 1966-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780195377958
Subjects: Promises; Contracts
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: understanding promises and agreements / Hanoch Sheinman; title: The problem with promising / David Owens; title: Three dogmas about promising / Margaret Gilbert; title: Is promising a practice and nothing more? / Stan Husi; title: The importance of self-promises / Connie Rosati; title: On coerced promises / Eric Chwang; title: Promising too much / Julia Driver; title: The value of making and keeping promises / Michael Smith; title: Act-utilitarianism and promises / Alastair Norcross; title: Promises and rule consequentialism / Brad Hooker; title: Demystifying promises / Stephen Darwell; title: Daniel Friedrich & promises and trust / Nicholas Southwood; title: Promise as an arm's length relation / Daniel Markovits; title: On promises / David Philips Sidgwick; title: Contractarianism and emergency / Yitzhak Benbaji; title: Agreement as joint promise / Hanoch Sheinman.