Introduction: understanding promises and agreements / Hanoch Sheinman - The problem with promising / David Owens - Three dogmas about promising / Margaret Gilbert - Is promising a practice and nothing more? / Stan Husi - The importance of self-promises / Connie Rosati - On coerced promises / Eric Chwang - Promising too much / Julia Driver - The value of making and keeping promises / Michael Smith - Act-utilitarianism and promises / Alastair Norcross - Promises and rule consequentialism / Brad Hooker - Demystifying promises / Stephen Darwell - Daniel Friedrich & promises and trust / Nicholas Southwood -Promise as an arm's length relation / Daniel Markovits - On promises / David Philips Sidgwick - Contractarianism and emergency / Yitzhak Benbaji - Agreement as joint promise / Hanoch Sheinman.