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All the ideas for 'Causality: Production and Propagation', 'Internal and External Reasons' and 'The Idea of Overlapping Consensus'

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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes
9284 Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism
23420 In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
8412 A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
8413 Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
8411 Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon]