ABSTRACT
K.J.W. Craik’s The Nature of Explanation (1943) opened the door to a new way of thinking. Its author, like so many brilliant Cambridge men (Rupert Brooke, for example, or Frank Ramsey), ensured his immortality by dying young. He was knocked off his bicycle outside his college by a passing car. It is impossible to re-read his book now without wondering what its successors would have been, if only its author had been able to continue.
