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.

摘要

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).