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  1. Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003), p. 92.

  2. Ibid., p. 90.

  3. Ibid., p. 93.

  4. Ibid., p. 92.

  5. Ibid., p. 96.

  6. See Jaegwon Kim, Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 1993).

  7. Ibid., p. 94.

  8. Ibid., p. 5.

  9. Ibid., p. 8.

  10. See Mark Timmons, Morality without Foundations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 11–12.

  11. See Michael Gill, “Indeterminacy and Variability in Meta-Ethics,” Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.

  12. See James Dreier, “Meta-Ethics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism,” Philosophical Perspectives, 18, (2004).

  13. Gibbard, op. cit., p. 261.

  14. See Barry Stroud, “Transcendental Arguments,” Journal of Philosophy. 65 (1968) pp. 241–256.

  15. Gibbard, op. cit., pp. 97–98.

  16. See J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (New York: Penguin, 1977).

  17. Gibbard, op. cit., p. 254.

  18. Ibid., p. 267.

  19. Ibid., p. 258.

  20. Ibid., p. 259.

  21. Ibid., p. 261.

  22. Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) p. 15.

  23. Gibbard, op. cit., p. 261.

  24. See Andy Egan, “Quasi-Realism and Fundamental Error,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85:2, (2007) pp. 205–219.

  25. See Allan Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feeling (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990) pp. 179–181.

  26. Gibbard, op. cit., p. 286.

  27. Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989) p. 73.

  28. See Simon Blackburn, Ruling Passions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) pp. 286–294.

  29. Gibbard, op. cit., p. 286.

  30. Ibid., p. 259.

  31. See Blackburn, op. cit., pp. 294–298.

  32. I would like to thank Aaron Exum, Jeff Goodman, Franklin Scott, an anonymous referee, and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for helpful comments on this article.

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Fleming, P. Gibbard’s Transcendental Arguments. J Value Inquiry 44, 81–92 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9205-5

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