A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice. A Survey of resources on the topic is given below, still very rough and incomplete, but perhaps a few will find it of use.
Background
Blog Series
Categories à la Peirce
- C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle
- Peirce’s Categories • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9) • (10) • (11) • (12) • (13) • (14) • (15) • (16) • (17) • (18) • (19) • (20) • (21)
cc: Cybernetics • Ontolog Forum • Peirce List • Structural Modeling • Systems Science
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