Here’s a challenge for a budding young metaphysician/philosopher of science. Compare and contrast the account of causation as difference making in chapter one of Carolina Sartorio’s excellent dissertation with the account of causal explanation as difference-making in Michael Strevens’s wonderful Nous paper. I’m much too busy to plow through the details, but anyone who is interested in the topics of causation and explanation would learn a lot from reading both papers, and there might be some room to make (incremental) progress by triangulating between their views.