ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how it is perfectly possible to have explanations of the mind, and explanations of different sorts, both of the mind and of other things, without their necessarily getting in each other's way. It describes a sharp distinction between the cases where one can enter into the mind of someone else and see why he does it, and those which seem to be entirely opaque. The chapter distinguishes two different things which ancestors may have done, which could be counted as explanations. The first paradigm of explanation is when one explains why he do whatever it is that he has done. The other paradigm of explanation is where one is trying to explain how an event happens. The chapter considers the difficulties that biologists feel about functional explanations. Functional explanations sense is going to gather together a whole lot of different physiological phenomena and put them into a coherent pattern.
