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  1. Exploring Categorical Structuralism.C. Mclarty - 2004 - Philosophia Mathematica 12 (1):37-53.
    Hellman [2003] raises interesting challenges to categorical structuralism. He starts citing Awodey [1996] which, as Hellman sees, is not intended as a foundation for mathematics. It offers a structuralist framework which could denned in any of many different foundations. But Hellman says Awodey's work is 'naturally viewed in the context of Mac Lane's repeated claim that category theory provides an autonomous foundation for mathematics as an alternative to set theory' (p. 129). Most of Hellman's paper 'scrutinizes the formulation of category (...)
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  • Does category theory provide a framework for mathematical structuralism?Geoffrey Hellman - 2003 - Philosophia Mathematica 11 (2):129-157.
    Category theory and topos theory have been seen as providing a structuralist framework for mathematics autonomous vis-a-vis set theory. It is argued here that these theories require a background logic of relations and substantive assumptions addressing mathematical existence of categories themselves. We propose a synthesis of Bell's many-topoi view and modal-structuralism. Surprisingly, a combination of mereology and plural quantification suffices to describe hypothetical large domains, recovering the Grothendieck method of universes. Both topos theory and set theory can be carried out (...)
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  • An answer to Hellman's question: ‘Does category theory provide a framework for mathematical structuralism?’.Steve Awodey - 2004 - Philosophia Mathematica 12 (1):54-64.
    An affirmative answer is given to the question quoted in the title.
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  • What is categorical structuralism?Geoffrey Hellman - 2006 - In Johan van Benthem, Gerhard Heinzman, M. Rebushi & H. Visser (eds.), The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today. Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer. pp. 151--161.
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  • Mathematics without foundations.Hilary Putnam - 1967 - Journal of Philosophy 64 (1):5-22.
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  • (1 other version)Parts of Classes.Michael Potter - 1993 - Philosophical Quarterly 43 (172):362-366.
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  • (1 other version)Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation.Bob Hale & Geoffrey Hellman - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (4):919.
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