However, there remains an unnerving degree of mystery as to why cognition of a piece of reality should compel me to act in a certain way: a theory that could explain why someone does the right thing from a third-person perspective could nevertheless fail to justify the action from the agent’s own, first-person perspective and so fail to support its claims about what this agent should do. Realism doesn’t give the right kind of explanation of why some things in life matter more than other…