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Category theory and the foundations of mathematics: Philosophical excavations

Synthese, 1995
The aim of this paper is to clarify the role of category theory in the foundations of mathematics. There is a good deal of confusion surrounding this issue. A standard philosophical strategy in the face of a situation of this kind is to draw various distinctions and in this way show that the confusion rests on divergent conceptions of what the ...
Jean-Pierre Marquis
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MATHEMATICS: FROM SET THEORY TO CATEGORY THEORY

Metaphysics, 2022
The basis of mathematics is set theory, to which almost all mathematical directions go back. However, the importance of category theory for mathematics as a whole is steadily increasing. If in set theory the determining role is played by the internal structure of the object under consideration, then in category theory an object is characterized by its ...
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