Fulfilling one’s all-things-considered duty sometimes requires violating pro tanto duties. According to W. D. Ross and Robert Nozick, the tanto-duty-violating, wrong-making features of acts in these cases can leave ‘traces’ wrongfulness that require specific responses: feeling compunction for and/or providing compensation negatively affected person. Failure respond appropriate way lingering its...

We construct an analogue of Kontsevich and Vishik’s canonical trace for a class of pseudodifferential boundary value problems in Boutet de Monvel’s calculus on compact manifolds with boundary. For an operator A in the calculus (of class zero), and an auxiliary operator B, formed of the Dirichlet realization of a strongly elliptic second-order differential operator and an elliptic operator on th...