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

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