Recently, the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review put together a special issue on the Process of Explanation (guest edited by Andrei Cimpian and Frank Keil). I read almost all the papers in the special issue — they’re excellent and well worth your time. I participated in a Digital Event (organized by Stephan Lewandowsky) where I synthesized some of the papers I liked the most in a blog post. You can check it out here:

It’s Tricky to Build an Explanation Machine – Let’s Fix That