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677Promising by Normative AssurancePhilosophical Quarterly 73 (4): 1004-1023. 2023.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.
Varese, Lombardy, Italy
Areas of Specialization
Promises |
Value Theory |
Decision Theory |
Topics in Decision Theory |
Convention and Coordination |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Formal Semantics |
Generative Semantics |
Epistemic Modals |
Deontic Modals |