Category Theory 2015

My main logical resolution for 2015 is to get to know quite a bit more category theory. Well, it’s fun, I find it aesthetically very appealing, there are some super-smart category theory people here in Cambridge — and there seem to be enough lurking conceptual issues to engage the philosophical bits of my brain, though I want to know (a lot) more category theory before sounding off about them.

I’ve therefore now started a new section of Logic Matters on categories  where I’ll be posting various stuff — starting with my slowly-expanding Notes on Category Theory, and eventually some book notes, links to on-line resources on Category Theory, and so on. Enjoy!

(Other New Year’s resolutions? One is to stop wasting time and endangering my blood pressure reading the comments on various Well Known Philosophy Blogs, comments which seem too often to be getting increasingly bonkers, unpleasant and — let’s hope — unrepresentative. Feeling better already …)