Category Theory in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy (1st ed. 2019) (Springer Proceedings in Physics #235)

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Synopsis
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.
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2019

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9783030308964
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9783030308957
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Springer International Publishing
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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English
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History, Nonfiction, Science, Earth Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy
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Edited by:
Marek Kuś
Edited by:
Bartłomiej Skowron

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