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    Analytic philosophers of history were drawn to the covering-law model of explanation

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    • 1.Analytic philosophers of history adopted a theory of causation grounded in Humean assumptions
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    • 2.Humean assumptions hold that causation is nothing but constant conjunction
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    • 3.The covering-law model appeared to provide a basis for asserting historical causation consistent with constant conjunction
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    • 1.William Dray's 'Laws and Explanation in History' (1957) mounted a sustained critique showing historians resist subsumption under covering laws.
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    • 2.Dray argued historical explanation is rational explanation—reconstructing agents' reasons—which requires no lawlike generalizations.
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    • 3.The prevalence of Dray's 'how-possibly' and rational explanation models among analytic philosophers of history undermines any claim of consensus around covering-law explanation.
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    • 1.Collingwood's influence on analytic philosophy of history privileged re-enactment of agent reasoning, not nomological subsumption, as the core explanatory mode.
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    • 2.Many analytic philosophers of history, including Donagan and Scriven, explicitly rejected Hempel's model while remaining rigorously analytic in method.
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    Analytic philosophers of history most commonly approached these issues on the basis of a theory of causation drawn from positivist philosophy of science. This theory is ultimately grounded in Humean assumptions about causation: that causation is nothing but constant conjunction. So analytic philosophers were drawn to the covering-law model of explanation, because it appeared to provide a basis for asserting historical causation. As noted above, this approach to causal explanation is fatally flaw
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