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The title of this chapter is misleading. “Scientific explanation” is the traditional name for a topic philosophers of science are supposed to have something to say about. But it is a bad name for that topic. For one thing, theories of scientific explanation don’t have an activity that is exclusive to scientists as their subject matter. Non-scientists do it too, all the time; they just have less specialized knowledge to use, and direct their attention to less complicated phenomena. This suggests that we drop the adjective “scientific” and call the topic “explanation.” But the word “explanation” all by itself is also a bad name for the topic. What philosophers have called theories of explanation are meant to say something about what is happening in scenarios like these:
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