@article {Weber:2006:0303-8157:277, author = "Weber, Erik", title = "Are There Ontological Explanations?", journal = "Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities", volume = "91", number = "1", year = "2006", abstract = "There is a huge philosophical literature on scientific explanation, and no one seriously denies that the sciences explain in one way or another. But what about ontology? I will argue that ontological laws and ontological theories can explain. And I will point at the differences between ontological explanations and their scientific counterparts.", pages = "277-283", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pozs/2006/00000091/00000001/art00017" }