Livingston v. Jefferson. A Freestanding Footnote

A footnote on allostery.

A manuscript on allostery signed by Francis Crick and Jeffries Wyman was sent by Crick to Jacques Monod in 1965. Monod transmitted a copy of the manuscript, upon which he had written several comments, to Jean-Pierre Changeux, then a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley in the laboratory of Howard Schachman. Changeux provided a copy to Stuart Edelstein, a graduate studen...

Having a Baby (Livingston)

A footnote on local compactness

A standard example of an impredicative definition is that of the way-below relation [11], and thus of local compactness in (point-free) topology [6]. Local compactness can be dealt with predicatively as in [8], [5]; the particularly convenient re-formulation to be presented is based on a recent result by Peter Aczel [2], and on the observation that, in set-presented topologies, the way-below re...

Paul Livingston

Accuracy in the philosophical theory of rationality demands that we recognize particular beliefs as arising within the context of larger units, the cultural or conceptual schemes, patterns, or practices, involvement in which itself provides standards and grounds for their rational evaluation. At the same time, though, a satisfactory account of rationality cannot hold the standards, values, or c...

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