Expressivism about explanatory relevance

Abstract Accounts of scientific explanation disagree about what’s required for a cause, law, or other fact to be reason why an event occurs. In short, they the conditions explanatory relevance. Nonetheless, most accounts presuppose that claims relevance play descriptive role in tracking reality. By rejecting need this descriptivist assumption, I develop expressivist account and explanation: judge answer is express attitude being satisfied by . show how expressivism vindicates ordinary discourse explanation, including objectivity mind-independence explanations. avoiding commitment ontic relations, rehabilitate irrealist conception explanation.