Categories for the Working Philosopher

Elaine Landry is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Her research spans three broad areas within Philosophy of Science: history and philosophy of mathematics, history and philosophy of science, and Plato's philosophy of mathematics. She is one of few philosophers who works on building bridges between all of these areas of research. Her papers are referenced in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (SEP) under the entries for both "Category Theory" and "Structural Realism"

• 1: Colin McLarty: The Roles of Set Theories in Mathematics 2: David Corfield: Reviving the Philosophy of Geometry 3: Michael Shulman: Homotopy Type Theory: A synthetic approach to higher equalities 4: Steve Awodey: Structuralism, Invariance, and Univalence 5: Michael Ernst: Category Theory and Foundations 6: Jean-Pierre Marquis: Canonical Maps 7: John Bell: Categorical Logic and Model Theory 8: Jean-Pierre Marquis: Unfolding FOLDS: A Foundational Framework for Abstract Mathematical Concepts 9: Kohei Kishida: Categories and Modalities 10: J.R.B Cockett and R.A.G Seely: Proof Theory of the Cut Rule 11: Samson Abramsky: Contextuality: At the Borders of Paradox 12: Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger: Categorical Quantum Mechanics I: Causal Quantum Processes 13: James Weatherall: Category Theory and the Foundations of Classical Spacetime Theories 14: Joachim Lambek: Six-dimensional Lorentz Category 15: Andrée Ehresmann: Applications of Categories and Biology and Cognition 16: David I. Spivak: Categories as Mathematical Models 17: David Hans Halvorson and Dimitris Tsementzis: Categories of Scientific Theories 18: Elaine Landry: Structural Realism and Category Mistakes

'Professor Landry is to be congratulated on putting together a stimulating volume that introduces a broad audience to so many of the key conceptual, foundational, and philosophical ideas driving contemporary work at the intersection of philosophy and category theory'