Against Cognitive Instrumentalism

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International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 33 (4):247-257 (2020)
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1. In his 1964 review of Jack Smart’s classic Philosophy and Scientific Realism, Willard Van Quine, after quoting Smart saying that he propounds an ‘unashamedly realistic view of the fundamental pa...

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