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A Brief Introduction to Algebraic Set Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Steve Awodey
Steve Awodey*
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Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAE-mail: awodey@cmu.edu
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Abstract

This brief article is intended to introduce the reader to the field of algebraic set theory, in which models of set theory of a new and fascinating kind are determined algebraically. The method is quite robust, applying to various classical, intuitionistic, and constructive set theories. Under this scheme some familiar set theoretic properties are related to algebraic ones, while others result from logical constraints. Conventional elementary set theories are complete with respect to algebraic models, which arise in a variety of ways, such as topologically, type-theoretically, and through variation. Many previous results from topos theory involving realizability, permutation, and sheaf models of set theory are subsumed, and the prospects for further such unification seem bright.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 281 - 298
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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