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work_lr5hieogxvannnrapny7bzovla	Juha Saatsi	Reassessing Woodward's Account of Explanation: Regularities, Counterfactuals, and Noncausal Explanations	2013	18	.pdf	application/pdf	4987	296	48	We reassess Woodward's counterfactual account of explanation in relation to regularity explananda. 2001) Explanatory power is a matter of providing information that answers whatif-things-had-been-different questions ('w-questions'), as Woodward puts it. Woodward's account of explanation, involving both counterfactual and causal Others have similarly welcomed the potential of Woodward's account to naturally subsume non-causal explanations. analysed in counterfactual terms, in close parallel with one of Woodward's exemplars of causal explanation. If we accept that some non-causal explanations can be subsumed under Woodward's counterfactual account, there's work to be done. unified account would take explanatory power in both cases to be a matter of answering a range of w-questions by providing objective counterfactual information, What Woodward has shown, rather, is that manipulability plays an indispensable role elsewhere in his account, in responding to the explanatory asymmetry problem in connection with singular states of affairs, concerning, for example, the length of a particular pendulum.	./cache/work_lr5hieogxvannnrapny7bzovla.pdf	./txt/work_lr5hieogxvannnrapny7bzovla.txt