The Causal Approach to Explanation 1. Approaches to Explanation Causal Explanation and Explanatory Relevance Preliminaries Accounts of the Explanatory Relation The Causal Element in Explanation The Pursuit of Explanation 2. Causal and Explanatory Relevance The Minimal Causal Account of Event Explanation The Problem of Relevance The Probabilistic Solution The Counterfactual Solution The Manipulationist Solution The Kairetic Account of Explanation 3. The Kairetic Account of Difference-Making Overview of the Kairetic Account Causal Models States of Affairs The Eliminative Procedure Abstraction and Optimizing Cohesion The Optimizing Procedure Rival Accounts of Difference-Making Reconsidered 4. The Kairetic Account of Explanation Standalone Explanation Difference-Making and Transitivity Comparing Standalone Explanations Laplacean Blindness 5. Extending the Kairetic Account Quantifying Explanatory Relevance Trading Off Accuracy for Generality The Explanatory Framework Black Boxes and Multiple Realizability Aggregative Explanation Contrastive Explanation Beyond Causal Explanation 6. Event Explanation and Causal Claims Background Conditions versus Causes Preemption Non-Events as Difference-Makers Non-Events as Explananda Transitivity Three Kinds of Causation Explanation of Laws and Regularities 7. Regularity Explanation Approaches to Regularity Explanation Explaining Laws with Mechanisms Basing Generalizations Property Laws Other Laws The Metaphysics of High and Low 8.

Abstraction in Regularity Explanation Problems of Abstraction in Regularity Explanation Explaining Boylers"s Law A Theory of Idealization Mathematically Driven Explanation Probabilistic Explanation 9. Approaches to Probabilistic Explanation Explanatory Questions Varieties of Probabilistic Explanation: Examples Varieties of Probabilistic Explanation: Commentary Accounts of Probabilistic Explanation Elitism versus Egalitarianism Probability and Determinism Formal Elements of the Kairetic Approach 10. Kairetic Explanation of Frequencies Probabilistic Explanation in Deterministic Systems Explanation with Complex Probability Explanation with Quasiprobability Elitism versus Egalitarianism the Kairetic Way Regularity Explanation and Probabilistic Metaphysics 11. Kairetic Explanation of Single Outcomes Single Outcome Explanation Robustness Non-Explanatory Probability-Raisers Non-Explanatory Critical Events Elitism and Egalitarianism Revisited Valediction 12. Looking Outward Biology: Probabilistic Explanation Psychology: Content and Explanation Economics: Abstraction Explanatory Autonomy 13. Looking Inward Notes.