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== Further reading ==
Carl G. Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science (New York: Free Press, 1965).
Randolph G. Mayes, "Theories of explanation", in Fieser Dowden, ed, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006.
Ilkka Niiniluoto, "Covering law model", in Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edn (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Wesley C. Salmon, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990 / Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).