 Cei Maslen (2004), Jonathan Schaffer (2005) and Robert Northcott (2008) all defend ‘contrastive’ accounts of causation. Schaffer conceives causation as a four-place relation – c rather than c* caused e rather than e* – and claims that context (or other devices, such as stress on a particular word) generally fixes the implied contrasts (c* and e*) in our ordinary, two-place causal talk, thereby playing a role in the truth or falsity of our (two-place) causal claims. Note that contrastivism about causation is a distinct position from the view that explanations are (always or sometimes) contrastive (see e.g. Lewis 1986d, §VI; Lipton 1991; Hitchcock 1999). On a contrastivist view of explanation, explanations (always or sometimes) take the form ‘Why P rather than Q?’, where the contrast (Q) may be explicitly stated or implied by the context in which the question ‘Why P?’ is asked. Such a view is entirely compatible with an invariantist view of causation, since the role of the contrast may merely be to select which of P’s causes is cited appropriately in answering the question. Note also that contrastivism about explanation does not appear to solve the (alleged) problem at hand. In the case of Suzy’s theft of the cake, it is the contrast on the side of causes (and hence explananda) that is at issue, and not the contrast on the side of the effect (explanandum); it is unclear how we might vary the contextually salient contrast to ‘Suzy became ill’ in such a way that different contrasts deliver different verdicts on whether ‘Suzy stole the coconut cake’ is an appropriate explanans.