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All the ideas for 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Explanation: the state of play'

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6 ideas

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

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Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford]

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Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

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We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6853	Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology

6854	Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]