Logic Matters 2008-06-08

Awodey's Category Theory: Ch. 1

I bought Steve Awodey's book Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides, Clarendon Press, 2006) when it first came out. Awodey says that his book is aimed, inter alia, at "researchers and students" in philosophy; I'd been impressed and intrigued by a couple of his lucid contributions to Philosophia Mathematica, and had hoped for an equally approachable book. But, whatever Category Theory's virtues, easy approachability isn't one of them, and after reading a fair bit of it, I had to put the book aside for when I had enough time to work through it again more slowly. At last, I've got back to it, and I'll give some reactions here.I have to say immediately (as in fact I said here before) that I can't imagine that there are many philosophers who would be equipped to dive straight in and cope with this ...

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