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I owe many thanks to Gil Harman and Michael Smith for extensive discussion and comments on previous drafts of this paper. I also owe thanks for comments and discussion to Robert Audi, Sarah Buss, Al Casullo, Josh Cohen, Jamie Dreier, Berys Gault, Margaret Gilbert, Jennifer Haley, Harry Ide, Mark Johnston, Mark Kalderon, Cliff Landesman, Joe Mendola, Michaelis Michael, Dick Moran, Alexander Nehamas, Pauline O'Connor, Lee Overton, Peter Railton, Charles Sayward, Scott Sehon, and Lyle Zynda, as well as an anonymous referee for this journal. Drafts of this paper were presented to audiences at Princeton University in 1990, and to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1991. I thank the people present on each of those occasions for many useful comments.

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van Roojen, M. Humean motivation and Humean rationality. Philos Stud 79, 37–57 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989783

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