Upsetting the foundations for mathematics
Philosophia Scientiae, Volume 9 (2005) no. 2, pp. 5-21.

Starting with a review of the kinds of questions a foundation for mathematics should address, this paper provides a critique of set theoretical foundations, a proposal that multiple interconnected categorical foundations would be an improvement, and a way of recovering set theory within a categorical approach.

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Neff Stout, Lawrence. Upsetting the foundations for mathematics. Philosophia Scientiae, Volume 9 (2005) no. 2, pp. 5-21. http://archive.numdam.org/item/PHSC_2005__9_2_5_0/

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