ABSTRACT
In giving an account of scientic (and social scientic) explanations, one does better reecting on the more restrictive evaluation of “explanations” within the sciences and on the kinds of information that the sciences can and sometimes do afford for answering the restricted class of explanation-seeking questions. Plausibly, the social sciences afford information of a sort like that of the sciences generally-information affording explanatory practices that are rather like those in the sciences generally.
