My central claim is that the plethora of explanatory strategies for the study of human behavior is no accidental feature of our epistemic situation. I offer an account of why a multitude of such theories is to be expected and why this situation is not to be regretted. I am not the first to endorse a pluralist approach to the interpretation of human behavior; my contribution is the argument I have charted to that conclusion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)