Syllabus: Ecology, Society, Semiotics
August 24, 2017 — Brad Venner
Motivation: computational trinitarianism
A blog post by Robert Harper, most likely in jest.
Trinitarianism is the central organizing principle of programming language research
Philosophy, Mathematics, Science
Although the original trinity in was logic, category theory and computer science,
Philosophy
Mathematics
Science
Peirce’s Architechtonic
Logic as semiotic
Classification of the Sciences
Categorical semiotics
Weak categorical semiotics
Goguen’s algebraic semiotics
Strong categorical semiotics
Motivated by the clear family resemblance of Peirce’s late semiotics and the structure of a three-category
Categorical logic founded upon topos theory - in this formulation category theory is more broad than topos theory.
Adjoint modality in a topos as foundation of physics. Close family resemblance to Peirce’s gamma graphs with a network of modalities.
Jacobs claim for a broader categorical logic.
Ellerman’s formulation of adjunction as profunctor
Brain functors
Sustainability
The re