Full Idea
To put forward the covering-law models of scientific explanation is not to deny that there are other contexts in which we speak of explanation. ….That it does not fit explaining the rules of Hanoverian succession is to miss the intent of our model.
Gist of Idea
The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different
Source
Carl Hempel (Aspects of Scientific Explanation [1965], p. 412-3), quoted by David-Hillel Ruben - Explaining Explanation Ch 1
Book Reference
Ruben,David-Hillel: 'Explaining Explanation' [Routledge 1990], p.15
A Reaction
Important to get that clear. It then requires a clear demarcation between science and the rest, and it had better not rule out biology because it is having a love affair with physics.