 More work on causation and explanation has been done within the logical empiricist program. The deductive nomological model of explanation by Hempel and Oppenheim (1948)—also referred to as the DN model of explanation—seems to give us an exemplar of a conceptual analysis without metaphysics. Let us briefly recall the basic elements of this model. The explanans of an empirical phenomenon \(E\) consists of two types of statements. First, a set \(C\) of antecedent conditions \(C_1, \ldots, C_k\). Second, a set \(L\) of laws \(L_1, \ldots, L_r\). These two sets form the explanans, while \(E\) is called the explanandum. \(C\) and \(L\) explain \(E\) iff