Research project

Requests as reasons. A philosophical account

We are able to change the rights and obligations we have towards each other by means of certain actions. We can do this by promising, by consenting, by giving orders, or by making demands. By promising you put yourself under a duty. By giving orders you put – given that you have the required authority – another person under a duty. By consenting you release the other person from a duty. We also seem to change the reasons for action other people have by
making requests. How requests create reasons and whether they also sometimes create obligations are the questions my research project deals with.