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July 5, 2019

Type Theory, Category Theory and Philosophy

Posted by David Corfield

I held a small gathering this week in Kent, Type theory, Category theory and Philosophy. Currently I only have my own slides up there. I’ll see which others I can add.

My talk was on events and temporal type theory. That events are spoken of in ways unlike objects has long been observed by philosophers. Looking for a type-theoretic rendition of natural language, one would expect at the very least that the object/event distinction should be recognised.

My belief is growing the philosophy, computer science and linguistics have much to say to one another, so it was great to hear from Dominic Orchard, a local computer scientist, of his work on graded modalities, and how philosophers such as Kit Fine and Lou Goble had uncovered them in the early 70s. There’s a body of work by linguistics to go through too, such as Lassiter’s Graded Modality.

Posted at July 5, 2019 11:08 AM UTC

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Re: Type theory, Category theory and Philosophy

Thanks for uploading your slides!

Posted by: Tim Hosgood on July 5, 2019 11:03 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Type theory, Category theory and Philosophy

Thanks for uploading your slides!

Posted by: Tim Hosgood on July 5, 2019 11:03 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

More slides

Dominic Orchard’s slides are now posted there.

Posted by: David Corfield on July 8, 2019 4:02 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

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