Abstract
This chapter provides an explanation of the demand-rights associated with promises and agreements, presenting and defending novel accounts of both as a species of joint decision, where a joint decision as such is constituted by a joint commitment to endorse as a body a certain plan of action. Given their appeal to a particular explicit way of arriving at the joint commitment in each case, these accounts can accommodate both the kinship and distinctness of promises and agreements. Notably, the primary obligations at issue are not moral requirements but directed obligations of joint commitment, the equivalents of the associated demand-rights. Further, these obligations are inevitable given the promise or agreement, irrespective of its content, circumstances, or consequences.
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