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外文期刊>Philosophia Mathematica
>Elaine Landry,* ed. Categories for the Working Philosopher. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-874899-1 (hbk); 978-0-19-106582-8 (e-book). Pp. xiv + 471.
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Elaine Landry,* ed. Categories for the Working Philosopher. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-874899-1 (hbk); 978-0-19-106582-8 (e-book). Pp. xiv + 471.
Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician is widely regarded as one of the seminal textbooks in category theory. There he shows how categorial constructions appear in various guises throughout mathematics. This is the pedagogical style of Mac Lane 1971; he explains various categorial properties by providing many examples using commonplace mathematical structures, thereby providing a more concrete understanding of a very abstract subject matter for the working mathematician. Elaine Landry has collected together several of the leading category theorists and philosophers to try and do similarly for philosophers, explaining category theory by showing how it appears in diverse philosophical contexts. Indeed, she explicitly sets herself this task (along with her collaborators).
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机译:桑德斯·麦克莱恩(Saunders Mac Lane)的《工作数学家的分类》被广泛认为是范畴论的开创性教科书之一。在那里,他展示了分类结构如何在整个数学中以各种形式出现。这是Mac Lane [1971]的教学风格;他通过使用常见的数学结构提供了许多示例来解释各种分类性质,从而为工作的数学家提供了对非常抽象的主题的更具体的理解。伊莱恩·兰德里(Elaine Landry)召集了几位领先的范畴理论家和哲学家,试图为哲学家做类似的事情,通过展示范畴论在不同的哲学背景下如何出现来解释范畴论。事实上,她明确地为自己设定了这项任务(以及她的合作者)。
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