Because You Promised

Chapter 1: Promises and Obligations 1.The Importance of Conceptual Questions about Promises 2. On the Notion of a Promissory Obligation 3. The Strong Obligation View 4. Understanding Promises Without Obligation â" The Intention View 5. The Obligation View Revisited

Chapter 2: Taking Promises at Face Value 1. From Conceptual to Normative Necessity 2. The Case for Taking Promises at Face Value 3. Promising as a Normative Power 4. Normative Powers in Theoretical Context 5. Validity Conditions for Promises 6. Summing Up: The Prima Facie Case for Non-Reductivism

Chapter 3: The Alleged Mystery of Non-Reductivism 1.The Charge of Mystery 2. Bootstrapping Worries 3. Value-Independence and the Value-Reason Nexus 4.The Value of Promising and Challenges of Vindication 5. What Next?

Chapter 4: Reductive Accounts of Promissory Normativity 1. Types of Reductive Theory 2. Practice Views: Taxonomy and Core Ideas 3. Self-Interest Theories 4. Conventionalist Theories 5. Perlocutionary Theories 6.The Hybrid Account 7. A Limited Kind of Pluralism about Promissory Normativity

Chapter 5: A Trilemma for Reductivism about Promissory Normativity 1. A Blueprint for an Extensionally Adequate Reductive Theory 2. Promises and Trust: an Extensionally Adequate Reductive Theory? 3. The Redundancy Problem for the Reductive Trust View 4. More Overgeneration Worries 5. Laying out the Trilemma for Reductivism 6. Conventionalism and the Trilemma for Reductivism

Chapter 6: The Two-Level Account of Promissory Normativity 1. Recapitulation: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 2.The Value of Normative Control 3.Two Types of Value-Based Grounding 4.Two-Level Accounts and Conventionalism 5. Advantages of Two-Level Accounts 6. Challenges and Objections

Chapter 7: The Objection from Wishful Thinking 1. Value-Based Grounding and Wishful Thinking 2. Material and Normative Components of the Promissory Power 3. The Case of Rights to Personal Autonomy 4. Other Cases of B-Type Grounding in the Normative 5. Towards a Possible Explanation of the Results

Chapter 8: On the Value of Promissory Control 1. Normative Control and Assurance: Introducing the Trust View 2.Trust and the Value of Trust Relationships 2. The Warrant-Giving Nature of the Promissory Power 3. Some Important Advantages of the Trust View 4. Potential Objections to the Two-Level Trust View Trust and the Problem of Unserved Interest