Scientific Realism or Irenic Instrumentalism: A Critique of Nagel and Feyerabend on Theoretical Explanation

In Robert Cohen Max Wartofsky (ed.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. II,. pp. 171-204 (1965)
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Sellars argues against Nagelian instrumentalism for his version (not Feyerabend's) of scientific realism.

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