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  1. Michael Smith, The Moral Problem (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), p. 11; see also David McNaughton, Moral Vision (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), p. 23.

  2. Smith, op. cit., pp. 5 & 124.

  3. Michael Smith, “Realism,” in A Companion to Ethics, ed. Peter Singer (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p. 402.

  4. See Smith, The Moral Problem, p. 7.

  5. See J. E. J. Altham “The Legacy of Emotivism,” in Graham MacDonald and Crispin Wright, eds., Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).

  6. See Elizabeth Anscombe, Intention (Oxford: Blackwell, 1957), p. 56.

  7. Smith, The Moral Problem, p. 7.

  8. Ibid.

  9. See J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (London: Penguin, 1977).

  10. Smith, The Moral Problem, p. 11.

  11. Mackie, op. cit., pp. 38–39.

  12. See Michael Smith, “In Defence of ‘The Moral Problem’,” Ethics, vol. 108, no. 1, 1997, p. 118.

  13. Gareth Evans, The Varieties of Reference (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982) p. 225.

  14. Evans, op. cit., p. 225.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Roger Crisp (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 1139a, bk.VI, ch.1, pp. 103–104.

  17. See Jonathan Dancy, “Two Conceptions of Moral Realism,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, vol. 60, 1986; see also Edward Harcourt, “Quasi-Realism and Ethics Appearances,” Mind, vol. 114, 2005, and Michael Ridge “Saving the Ethical Appearances.” Mind, vol. 115, 2006.

  18. See Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, “The Metaethical Problem,” Ethics, vol. 108, 1997.

  19. Smith, “In Defence of ‘The Moral Problem’,” p. 118.

  20. Ibid.

  21. See ibid.

  22. See ibid., p. 117.

  23. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Lewis White Beck (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956), pp. 31 & 84.

  24. See David Jensen, “Kant and a Problem of Motivation,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 46, no. 1, 2012.

  25. Alison Denham, Metaphor and Moral Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 58.

  26. Ibid.

  27. Martha Nussbaum, “Saving Aristotle’s Appearances,” in The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 241.

  28. I would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for funding work for “Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study” that also made it possible to complete this article. I would also like to thank Andy Hamilton, Simon P. James, Donnchadh O’Conaill and Duncan Proctor, and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for helpful conversations and comments.

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Smith, B. What Mystery of Moral Experience?. J Value Inquiry 46, 197–207 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-012-9334-0

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