Textualism for Realists

The Immorality of Textualism

Protein folding for realists: a timeless phenomenon.

Future research on protein folding must confront two serious dilemmas. (1) It may never be possible to observe at high resolution the very important structures that form in the first few milliseconds of the refolding reaction. (2) The energy functions used to predict structure from sequence will always be approximations of the true energy function. One strategy to resolve both dilemmas is to vi...

Textualism and the Bill of Rights

Precocious realists: perceptual and cognitive characteristics

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Hilary Putnam And Immanuel Kant: Two 'Internal Realists'?

Since 1976 Hilary Putnam has drawn parallels between his ‘internal’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘natural’ or ‘common-sense’ realism and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Putnam reads Kant as rejecting the then current metaphysical picture with its in-built assumptions of a unique, mind-independent world, and truth understood as correspondence between the mind and that ready-made world. Putnam reads Kant as ove...