Promising by Normative Assurance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10690530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luca Passi (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1004-1023 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqad068 |
| OpenAlex | W4383858975 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper develops a new theory of the morality of promissory obligations. T. M. Scanlon notoriously argued that promising consists in assuring the promisee that we will do something. I disagree. I argue that it is true that promising consists in assuring the promisee, but what the promisor gives to the promisee is not an assurance that they will do something, but that the normative situation is in a certain way
Business · Law and economics · Morality · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Free Will and Agency · Law · Legal principles and applications · Philosophical Ethics and Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |