• Part VIII from §35. In the latter part of VIII, Sellars presents his own alternative to the view he discussed in the earlier part. The passage we will focus on is near the end, but I'll direct you also to the earlier material necessary to set it in context. The key passage is one in which Sellars offers

• a proposed solution to a regress he faces (see the first paragraph of §37, pp. 248ff).

You should think whether this proposal succeeds. But, of course, you also need to think about

• the statement of the regress, which appears at the end of §36 (on p. 248), and

• the view that can seem to face this regress, which can be found at the end of §35 (on p. 247).

And you should follow Sellars's directions to reread §19 after you finish §37.

• Part IX. This part picks up ideas Sellars began to discuss in §9, filling out the "autonomy" he there ascribed to theoretical language (p. 217). His strongest statement of this appears at the end of §42 on pp. 252f. This espousal of "scientific realism" needs to be balanced by his comment at the end of §40 (pp. 251f) that the discourse of science is the development of one aspect of ordinary usage. Sellars here speaks of his point of view as one that is opened up when one gives up what he calls the "positivistic conception of science" (§43, p. 253) that he sees as tied to the Myth of the Given, but his alternative view of science will have an important role in the particular way in which he gives up that Myth.