Hanoch Sheinman

Promises and Agreements

Philosophical Essays
Herausgeber: Sheinman, Hanoch

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780195377958
• ISBN-10: 0195377958
• Artikelnr.: 32729402

Autorenporträt

Hanoch Sheinman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rice University and editor of PROMISES AND AGREEMENTS (OUP forthcoming)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Contributors
Annotated Table of Contents
1.: Introduction: Understanding Promises and Agreements
2.: The Problem with Promising
3.: Three Dogmas about Promising
4.: Is Promising a Practice and Nothing More?
5.: The Importance of Self-Promises
6.: On Coerced Promises
7.: Promising Too Much
8.: The Value of Making and Keeping Promises
9.: Act-Utilitarianism and Promises
10.: Promises and Rule Consequentialism
11.: Demystifying Promises
12.: Promises and Trust
13.: Promise as an Arm's Length Relation
14.: Sidgwick on Promises
15.: Contractarianism and Emergency
16.: Agreement as Joint Promise
Subject Index
Name Index