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work_fhmapbg2qncllaayz5toutwsba	Brad Weslake	Explanatory Depth*	2010	22	.pdf	application/pdf	9316	748	51	single dimension of explanatory depth or that the nonfundamental sciences are capable of providing deeper explanations along all dimensions and Oppenheim devote a great deal of attention to the structure of scientific explanation, they never develop an account of explanatory depth. leave out the question, however, of whether it is possible to rank explanations of different events in terms of their relative explanatory depth.5 The DN view of explanation, supplemented with the scope-based account of explanatory depth, solves the puzzle with which I began this another only once makes for a difference in explanatory depth between the two generalizations, so it is important to note that scope does not imply this implausible claim. The fundamental physical explanation for any event will employ laws of maximal generality in the sense In particular, for any determinate w-question framed in terms of the variables employed by the fundamental physical explanation, the explanatory model will specify a determinate anEXPLANATORY DEPTH 281	./cache/work_fhmapbg2qncllaayz5toutwsba.pdf	./txt/work_fhmapbg2qncllaayz5toutwsba.txt