Insincere Promises - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insincere Promises write by Ian Ayres. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Insincere Promises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can a promise be a lie? Answer: when the promisor never intended to perform the promise. Such incidences of promissory fraud are frequently litigated because they can result in punitive damages awards. And an insincere promisor can even be held criminally liable. Yet courts have provided little guidance about what the scope of liability should be or what proof should be required. This book—the first ever devoted to the analysis of promissory fraud—answers these questions. Filled with examples of insincere promising from the case law as well as from literature and popular culture, the book is an indispensable guide for those who practice or teach contract law. The authors explore what promises say from the perspectives of philosophy, economics, and the law. They identify four chief mistakes that courts make in promissory fraud cases. And they offer a theory for how courts and practitioners should handle promissory fraud cases.
Speech Acts
Speech Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speech Acts write by John R. Searle. This book was released on 1969-01-02. Speech Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly
How to Be Trustworthy
How to Be Trustworthy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Be Trustworthy write by Katherine Hawley. This book was released on 2019-09-26. How to Be Trustworthy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We become untrustworthy when we break our promises, miss our deadlines, or offer up unreliable information. If we aim to be a trustworthy person, we need to act in line with our existing commitments and we must also take care not to bite off more than we can chew when new opportunities come along. But often it is not clear what we will be able to manage, what obstacles may prevent us from keeping our promises, or what changes may make our information unreliable. In the face of such uncertainties, trustworthiness typically directs us towards caution and hesitancy, and away from generosity, spontaneity, or shouldering burdens for others. In How To Be Trustworthy, Katherine Hawley explores what trustworthiness means in our lives and the dilemmas which arise if we value trustworthiness in an uncertain world. She argues there is no way of guaranteeing a clean conscience. We can become untrustworthy by taking on too many commitments, no matter how well-meaning we are, yet we can become bad friends, colleagues, parents, or citizens if we take on too few commitments. Hawley shows that we can all benefit by being more sensitive to obstacles to trustworthiness, and recognising that those who live in challenging personal circumstances face greater obstacles than other members of society--whether visibly or invisibly disadvantaged through material poverty, poor health, social exclusion, or power imbalances.
Promises and Agreements
Promises and Agreements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Promises and Agreements write by Hanoch Sheinman. This book was released on 2011-03-17. Promises and Agreements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprising 16 original contributions, this is the first collection of philosophical papers on promises and agreements, topics which are enjoying a renaissance in social, moral and legal philosophy.
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2 write by Leslie Green. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is an annual forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal to international law), and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.
