So Close and Yet So Far: Reinach and Gilbert on Promises

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dc.contributor.authorSalice, A.
dc.contributor.authorMassin, O.
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-12T09:50:02Z
dc.date.available2026-06-12T09:50:02Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-20
dc.descriptionPublisher Copyright: © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2025.
dc.description.abstractThe chapter compares the two remarkably similar and yet importantly different theories of promises, developed by Adolf Reinach and Margaret Gilbert, respectively. Margaret Gilbert claims that promises can be explained in terms of joint commitments borne by the promisor and the promisee to the decision that the promisor will φ. On this view, the promisor’s obligation and the promisee’s claim are grounded in the commitment they have jointly entered. By contrast, Adolf Reinach submits that promises do not have substantial explanation and that they generate promissory obligation and claim in virtue of their nature. By using insights from Reinach’s theory, this paper argues that Gilbert’s account of promises is to be rejected and suggests abandoning the idea that progress in our understanding of promises requires submitting them to substantial explanations. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2025.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidSalice, A.§0000-0002-7255-2889
dc.identifier.authororcidMassin, O.
dc.identifier.citationSalice, A & Massin, O 2025, So Close and Yet So Far: Reinach and Gilbert on Promises. in Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law. Cambridge University Press, pp. 277-304. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009446013.015
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781009446013.015
dc.identifier.endpage304
dc.identifier.isbn9781009446013
dc.identifier.isbn9781009446006
dc.identifier.journaltitleReinach and the Foundations of Private Law
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:D485D1377D5424494984D4E6770832AD
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7255-2889/work/217518192
dc.identifier.startpage277
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18957
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105035935454
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105035935454?origin=resultslist
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.rightscc_by_nc
dc.subjectAdolf Reinach
dc.subjectJoint commitment
dc.subjectMargaret Gilbert
dc.subjectpromise
dc.subjectpromissory claim
dc.subjectpromissory obligation
dc.subjectGeneral Social Sciences
dc.titleSo Close and Yet So Far: Reinach and Gilbert on Promisesen
dc.typeChapter (Peer reviewed)
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