This book focuses on Robert Rosen’s contributions to relational system theory, which is the science of organization and function. Rosen was the first to apply category theory to scientific problems, outside of pure mathematics, and the first to think about science from the point of view of category theory.
James Bryan Lennox lives in Brooklyn New York. He teaches philosophy at Baruch College, The City University of New York. His interests are in the relationship between philosophy, mathematics, and science, the philosophical implications of category theory, and relational system theory. This book will be a revised version of his dissertation.