 Connie Rosati, in her influential piece “The Importance of Self Promises” (2011) argues that self promises are, rather than a peripheral phenomena, the paradigmatic instance of promising—as they are exercises of our authority over ourselves. This idea is not without antecedent—R.S. Downie says something similar in his 1985 “Three Accounts of Promising”, as Rosati acknowledges. But Rosati’s account is more developed—appealing to Owens-style authority and Darwall’s second-personal normative framework.