At this year’s RoME, Professor Liberto gave a talk entitled “Promises and the Backward Reach of Uptake.” The paper examined the extent to which promissory obligations are constrained by conditions relating to the receipt or acceptance of the promise on the part of the promisee, a question of clear importance to a number of issues in applied normative philosophy. What follows is a short blog entry that Professor Liberto produced specifically for What’s Wrong? (image: promise)