ABSTRACT
In the Tagore-Einstein conversation, Tagore makes the obvious point that physics itself is a human enterprise as with any other human creation such as music, poetry, painting and sculpture. What effect does this fact alone have on the issue of realism? The suggested “humanness” of physics cannot by itself lead to anti-realism about entities and theories proposed in physics; otherwise realism cannot even be formulated. It follows then that the realism-antirealism options must be framed within the suggested “humanness.” One way to conceptualize the problem is to examine Immanuel Kant’s proposal that a sense of (independent) reality is itself a part of the human cognitive apparatus: the “Galilean Style” is a product of this apparatus.
