This book investigates how subjective perspectives are represented in practical discourse to resolve long-standing puzzles regarding human reasons, rationality, and normative obligations. Tim Henning utilizes frameworks from the philosophy of language and formal semantics to construct a unified theory of normative discourse. By examining the linguistic structure of practical statements, he provides a systematic account of how agents express and act upon their subjective rational states.

Experts recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the intersection of meta-ethics and the philosophy of language. Readers frequently note the technical density of the prose, which is intended for an audience familiar with formal semantic theory and contemporary practical philosophy.