 Albeit he never gave up the task of developing an objective and realistic concept of explanation, in the Nineties Salmon granted the importance of pragmatic considerations in connection with causal explanation. In this vein, he admitted that causal analysis can be performed at different levels of detail, depending on the circumstances. In some cases, phenomena can be analyzed in great detail, based on scientific theories, but more often they can be examined at varying degrees of abstraction, determined by the context. In “A Realistic Account of Causation”, published posthumously in 2002, Salmon argued that