Reasons play many different roles across different domains. There are reasons for action. And there are reasons for belief. Some reasons merely justify. Others also demand. At a given time, some but not all of the reasons are possessed by or can guide a particular agent. In The Range of Reasons: in Ethics and Epistemology, Daniel Whiting develops a novel modal theory of reasons that unifies the different roles that reasons play across the practical and epistemic domains. This well-argued book will be of interest not only to philosophers who work on reasons but also to those who work on ethics and epistemology.

Before we get to the modal theory in Chapter 4, there are 3 chapters of preliminary material. Chapter 1 provides an overview…

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