What is Category Theory?
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Table of contents :
John L. Bell, Abstract and variable sets in category theory, pp. 9–16.
J. Scott Carter, Categories for knotted curves, surfaces and quandles, pp. 17–44.
Bob Coecke, Introducing categories to the practicing physicist, pp. 45–74.
David Corfield, Some implications of the adoption of category theory for philosophy, pp. 75–93.
Costas A. Drossos, Sets, categories and structuralism, pp. 95–126.
David Ellerman, A theory of adjoint functors—with some thoughts about their philosophical significance, pp. 127–183.
Solomon Feferman, Enriched stratified systems for the foundations of category theory, pp. 185–203.
Ralf Krömer, Category theory, pragmatism, and operations universal in mathematics, pp. 205–220.
Jean-Pierre Marquis, What is category theory?, pp. 221–255.
Ronald Brown and Tim Porter, Category theory: An abstract setting for analogy and comparison, pp. 257–274.
Vidhyānāth K. Rao, On doing category theory within set theoretic foundations, pp. 275–290.