Explanation, Causation and Deduction

The essay defends the deductive-nomological model of explanation against various criticisms challenging its traditional view that scientific explanations are causal and deductive. It argues that recent claims about the independence of causal and scientific explanations fail to undermine this model. By presenting a Humean perspective, the essay asserts that the deductive-nomological framework accurately accounts for both scientific and causal explanations of individual facts and processes, emphasizing the necessity of initial conditions and laws in explaining events.