Document Retired

The entry titled “Scientific Explanation” has been revised and re-published under the new title “20th Century Theories of Scientific Explanation” which is available at the following URL:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation-20th/

For a discussion of more recent work on scientific explanation, see the entry: Causal Approaches to Scientific Explanation.

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