Abstract Mark Wilson presents a highly original account of conceptual behavior that challenges many received views about concepts in analytic philosophy. Few attempts have been made to rationally reconstruct Wilson’s framework patches and facades within precise semantic framework. I will show how modified version the structuralist offers reconstruction scientific theories capable modeling ideas...

Scholars, journalists, and activists working on climate change often distinguish between “individual” “structural” approaches to decarbonization. The former concern choices individuals can make reduce their “personal carbon footprint” (e.g. eating less meat). latter changes institutions, laws, other social structures. These two are framed as oppositional, representing a mutually exclusive force...

In recent work, symmetric dagger-monoidal (SDM) categories have emerged as a convenient categorical formalization of quantum mechanics. The objects represent physical systems, the morphisms physical operations, whereas the tensors describe composite systems. Classical data turn out to correspond to Frobenius algebras with some additional properties. They express the distinguishing capabilities ...

Some issues for categorical foundations for mathematics are explored.Among them: how categorical foundations assert the existence of their objectsand arrows, and how categorical set theory motivates its own axiom scheme ofreplacement. Two interpretations of ZF into categorical set theory are explicitlycompared. One is homophonic but partial; the other is total and uses membershi...