Promising, Intimate Relationships, and Conventionalism

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2007-10-26

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Shiffrin’s talk is drawn from her paper of the same name. In it she argues that conventional accounts of the moral foundation for promise and obligation miss the mark. She gives an alternate account of promising behavior and argues that binding promises between agents are integral to individual autonomy and relations of intimacy and complexity. Without what she calls “the power to promise,” we cannot live freely on an equal basis with others.

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law, philosophy, contracts, promising behavior

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2007-08 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences