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Explaining Explanation David-Hillel Ruben New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991, xi + 265 pp., $47.95

This is the fourteenth volume in the Routledge series "The Problems of Philosophy, Their Past and Present," edited by Ted Honderich. "Each book in this series deals with a great or significant problem of philosophy. The series is intended to be easily accessible to undergraduates in philosophy, as well as to other readers at a more advanced level" (p. ii). If this statement of purpose is used as a criterion of assessment the present volume may be found wanting. But summary must precede criticism. Ruben maintains a number of theses about explanation. Here is a selection taken seriatim from the book.