Diagrammatic immanence : category theory and philosophy / Rocco Gangle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gangle, Rocco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Immanence (Philosophy).

Categories (Mathematics).

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.

Peirce, Charles S.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Category theory and philosophy

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This book integrates insights from Spinozist metaphysics, Peircean semiotics and Deleuze's philosophy of difference in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory. Category theory reveals deep structural connections among logic, topology and a variety of different areas of mathematics, and it provides constructive and rigorous concepts for investigating how diagrams work. Gangle offers a basic introduction to the methods of category theory from a philosophical and diagrammatic perspective allowing philosophers with little or no mathematical training to come to grips with this important field. This coordination of immanent metaphysics, diagrammatic method and category theoretical mathematics opens a new horizon for contemporary thought"--Back cover.

Contents:

Spinoza and relational immanence

Diagrams of structure : categories and functors

Peirce and semiotic immanence

Diagrams of variation : functor categoriers and presheaves

Deleuze and expressive immanence

Diagrams of difference : adjunctions and topoi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781474404174

1474404170

OCLC:

933606812