lingwood

An advantage that is sometimes claimed for the approach favored by Col - lingwood and his modern followers is that it does not imply that there is any incompatibility between re - garding an action as explicable and treating it as a free one.

CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968

What has come to be known as the “covering law model,” which was developed in the thirties and forties of the present century by a number of logical empiri - cists and which — so far as history is concerned — has achieved classic expression in the work of Carl Hempel, explicitly rests upon the contention (resisted by Col - lingwood) that any adequate explanation of a causal type must necessarily exhibit the event to be explained as instantiating some general law or laws; when strictly interpreted, this was held to imply that the explanan - dum should be deducible from a set of premisses con - sisting, on the one hand, of statements descriptive of

CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968