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The Book Develops, Defends, And Applies A Dual Scale Model Of Weighing Reasons To Resolve Various Issues In Ethics. It Tells You Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Weighing Reasons And Probably A Lot Of Stuff You Didn't Want To Know Too. It Addresses, Among Other Things, What The General Issue Of Weighing Reasons Is; What It Is To Weigh Reasons Correctly; Whether Reasons Have More Than One Weight Value (e.g., Justifying, Requiring, And/or Commending Weight); Whether Weight Values Are Context Sensitive; How To Tell What The Weights Of Reasons Are; How Reasons For Are Related To Reasons Against; And How The Weights Of Reasons Aggregate. After Addressing Such Issues, It Explains A Number Of Puzzling Phenomena In Ethics, Such As The All Or Nothing Problem, The Normative Significance Of Small Improvements, And The Intransitivity Of The Makes-it-permissible-to-act-against Relation-- Provided By Publisher.