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Categories for the working philosopher

By Landry , Elaine M

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780191811593, 0191811599
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8072621 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\486
Time added
2020-11-29 04:22:55

Description

Often people have wondered why there is no introductory text on category theory aimed at philosophers working in related areas. The answer is simple: what makes categories interesting and significant is their specific use for specific purposes. These uses and purposes, however, vary over many areas, both 'pure', e.g., mathematical, foundational and logical, and 'applied', e.g., applied to physics, biology and the nature and structure of mathematical models. Borrowing from the title of Saunders Mac Lane's seminal work 'Categories for the Working Mathematician', this book aims to bring the concepts of category theory to philosophers working in areas ranging from mathematics to proof theory to computer science to ontology, from physics to biology to cognition, from mathematical modelling to the structure of scientific theories to the structure of the world.

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