Is There Value in Keeping a Promise?

According to a widespread view which has been famously defended by Joseph Raz, the sole fact of making a promise to φ constitutes for the promisor a complete normative reason for φing and an “exclusionary” reason to disregard from her practical deliberation at least some of the reasons that recommend something different than φing. Moreover, under this model, the reason to keep our promises is also a content-independent reason. Promises generate normative reasons qua promises: there is moral value in keeping our promises regardless of what the content of the promise is. But is there really? In this paper, I argue that a least an account like Raz’s fails to give us a convincing answer. &nbsp