Category Theory in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy

134 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The contributions gathered here demonstrate how categorical ontology can provide a basis for linking three important basic sciences: mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Category theory is a new formal ontology that shifts the main focus from objects to processes. The book approaches formal ontology in the original sense put forward by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, namely as a science that deals with entities that can be exemplified in all spheres and domains of reality. It is a dynamic, processual, and non-substantial ontology in which all entities can be treated as transformations, and in which objects are merely the sources and aims of these transformations. Thus, in a rather surprising way, when employed as a formal ontology, category theory can unite seemingly disparate disciplines in contemporary science and the humanities, such as physics, mathematics and philosophy, but also computer and complex systems science. 

• Reihe: Springer Proceedings in Physics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Physik Mathematische / Computergestützte / Theoretische Physik
• ISBN: 9783030308957
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2019
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Marek Kuś, Bartłomiej Skowron