| Summary: | <p>I will attempt to answer three questions about reasons: what kinds of entities they are, why we should care about responding to them, and how they are related to motivation. In Chapter One, I argue that the debate in the theory of reasons is stagnant and that we would be better off adopting a radically new approach— pragmatic genealogy. In Chapter Two, I discuss the nature of pragmatic genealogy. In Chapter Three, I develop a pragmatic genealogy of reasons based on the need to reconcile conflicting beliefs and desires in both individual and communal settings. In Chapter Four, I respond to possible objections. In Chapter Five, I apply the information gained from our genealogy to address our three central questions and argue that it turns out that pragmatic genealogy is a methodology uniquely suited to doing so.</p>
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