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    The failure of an ethical transcendental argument to establish an ambitious, world-directed conclusion is not a victory for the moral skeptic

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    • 1.Many ethicists adopt anti-realist positions and do not regard moral values as part of the external world
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    • 2.A modest, non-world-directed transcendental argument meets the standards required in ethical contexts
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    • 3.The skeptical challenge in ethics does not require the same realist satisfaction demanded in epistemological cases
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    • 1.Moral skepticism targets the normative authority of moral claims, not merely their metaphysical status as world-directed facts.
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    • 2.A modest, subject-relative transcendental argument cannot vindicate the categorical bindingness that moral claims paradigmatically assert.
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    • 3.Mackie's error theory demonstrates that abandoning world-directedness concedes the skeptic's core point that objective prescriptivity is illusory.
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    • 1.Korsgaard's constitutivism shows that non-world-directed arguments must still ground universal normativity in the structure of rational agency.
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    • 2.If the transcendental argument fails to reach beyond the subject, it collapses into relativism, which is itself a skeptical conclusion about cross-agent moral authority.
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    In fact, in view of what was said previously regarding the problems of transcendental arguments, it is perhaps not really surprising that ethicists have had fewer qualms in producing them. For, as we saw, the difficulty when it comes to external world skepticism, other minds skepticism, and the like, is in finding an argument that will successfully cross Stroud’s ‘bridge of necessity’, and establish a conclusion concerning how things are, rather than how things must appear or how we must believe
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