caa a22 4500 606238506 CHVBK 20210128101258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9520-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9520-1 Dressel Ashley 88 Humanities Instructional Building, University of California, Irvine, 92697, Irvine, CA, USA aut "Directed Obligations and the Trouble with Deathbed Promises” [Elektronische Daten] [Ashley Dressel] On some popular accounts of promissory obligation, a promise creates an obligation to the person to whom the promise is made (the ‘promisee'). On such accounts, the wrong involved in breaking a promise is a wrong committed against a promisee. I will call such accounts ‘directed obligation' accounts of promissory obligation. While I concede that directed obligation accounts make good sense of many of our promissory obligations, I aim to show that directed obligation accounts, at least in their current forms, cannot accommodate an obligation to keep deathbed promises. While the term 'deathbed promise' refers to any promise made to a person who is dying, I focus specifically on deathbed promises which will not, or even cannot, be fulfilled until after the promisee's death. In what follows, I examine two prominent types of directed obligation account: (i) rights-based accounts, which argue that a promissory obligation is a directed obligation because a promise gives the promisee certain rights, and (ii) harm accounts, which argue that a promissory obligation is a directed obligation because a promise puts the promisee in a special position to be harmed. I argue that neither version can accommodate an obligation to keep deathbed promises. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Death nationallicence Directed-obligation nationallicence Harm nationallicence Posthumous nationallicence Promises nationallicence Rights nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 323-335 1386-2820 18:2<323 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9520-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9520-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dressel Ashley 88 Humanities Instructional Building, University of California, Irvine, 92697, Irvine, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 323-335 1386-2820 18:2<323 2015 18 10677