Categories in Context: Historical, Foundational, and Philosophical Export

@article{land:cate05, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to put into context the historical, foundational and philosophical significance of category theory. We use our historical investigation to inform the various category-theoretic foundational debates and to point to some common elements found among those who advocate adopting a foundational stance. We then use these elements to argue for the philosophical position that category theory provides a framework for an algebraic in re interpretation of mathematical structuralism. In each context, what we aim to show is that, whatever the significance of category theory, it need not rely upon any set-theoretic underpinning.}, author = {Landry, Elaine and Marquis, Jean-Pierre}, citeulike-article-id = {124936}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://philmat.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/1}, journal = {Philosophia Mathematica (III)}, keywords = {category\_theory, foundations, philosophy\_of\_mathematics}, number = {1}, pages = {1--43}, posted-at = {2005-03-16 18:11:08}, priority = {3}, title = {Categories in Context: Historical, Foundational, and Philosophical}, url = {http://philmat.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/1}, volume = {13}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - land:cate05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:124936 N2 - The aim of this paper is to put into context the historical, foundational and philosophical significance of category theory. We use our historical investigation to inform the various category-theoretic foundational debates and to point to some common elements found among those who advocate adopting a foundational stance. We then use these elements to argue for the philosophical position that category theory provides a framework for an algebraic in re interpretation of mathematical structuralism. In each context, what we aim to show is that, whatever the significance of category theory, it need not rely upon any set-theoretic underpinning. IS - 1 JF - Philosophia Mathematica (III) EP - 43 TI - Categories in Context: Historical, Foundational, and Philosophical VL - 13 SP - 1 KW - category_theory KW - foundations KW - philosophy_of_mathematics AU - Landry, Elaine AU - Marquis, Jean-Pierre PY - 2005/// UR - http://philmat.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/1 ER -