Causal Explanation

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Abstract Argues for the thesis that to explain an event is to provide some information about its causal history. This involves showing that there are no noncausal explanations of particular events, distinguishing between two kinds of why‐questions (plain and contrastive), and comparing the proposed account of explanation with the “covering‐law model” of Hempel and others.

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