(Ebook) Categories for the working philosopher by Landry, Elaine M ISBN 9780191811593, 0191811599

(Ebook) Categories for the working philosopher by Landry, Elaine M ISBN 9780191811593, 0191811599

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.