People / B. Scot Rousse

Visiting Researcher

About

B. Scot Rousse (“B”) is a philosopher of technology with a focus on existential phenomenology and its applications to AI. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University. His work foregrounds the embodied, skillful, and caring dimensions of human life often obscured by computational models of mind and intelligence. B examines how technologies shape our ways of being and emphasizes the need to recover care and connection as central concerns in how we design and live with our technologies. He has also been drumming in punk bands his entire life.

Date	Title
2026-10-05	Call for applications: 2-year postdoc in Oxford
2026-09-24	Discrete vs. filtered accessibility and presentability
2026-09-22	Who cares about a computation?
2026-09-18	Changing the frame: Formal modeling with LLM assistance, Part 1
2026-06-26	Our Summer Research Associates in 2026
2026-06-15	Geometric Type Theory, Done Two Ways
2026-06-01	CatColab v0.6: Starling
2026-04-18	Extending mass-action semantics, Part 2
2026-03-23	CatColab v0.5: Sandpiper
2026-03-18	Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? (Quanta)
2026-03-16	Extending mass-action semantics, Part 1
2026-01-30	Composition of attractor lattices
2026-01-08	CatColab v0.4: Robin
2025-11-24	Call for 2026 Summer Research Associates
2025-11-21	Set-sets
2025-11-07	DOTS from double theories
2025-10-07	Open position: Director of UK Operations
2025-09-26	Free PLTL algebras and a coalgebraic extension of hyperdoctrines
2025-08-15	Incremental query updating in adhesive categories
2025-08-06	Substitution is also pushout
2025-07-18	CatColab for Model Building
2025-07-13	Liberating synthetic quasi-coherence from forcing
2025-07-01	Our Summer Research Associates in 2025
2025-06-10	How to prove equations using diagrams, Part 2
2025-05-29	Growing the Topos tech team
2025-05-27	How to prove equations using diagrams, Part 1
2025-05-09	The Sun is Good
2025-05-08	Inaugural TopOx seminar
2025-05-07	The three functions of a name: reference, identity and display
2025-05-01	Graded categories as double functors
2025-04-30	Wiring Euclid for manufacturing
2025-04-29	Care at the Edge of Automation
2025-04-04	Distilling Research at Scale
2025-03-11	A Category Theory-Inspired BBN
2025-02-27	Towards codified context, durable documentation, and process preservation
2025-02-05	CatColab 0.2: Wren
2024-12-10	Polynomial universes and natural models
2024-11-13	Structure-aware version control via observational bridge types
2024-11-12	Call for 2025 Summer Research Associates
2024-11-08	Neural wiring diagrams for message passing in multiscale organizations
2024-10-31	Declarative Models and Collaborative Modeling
2024-10-11	Taking nonlogical concepts seriously
2024-10-02	Introducing CatColab
2024-09-06	Open curricula and assessment tools workshop in Kisumu
2024-08-30	Postdoc job openings in Topos Oxford, UK
2024-08-27	Plausible fiction
2024-08-19	Wiring diagrams for Mealy machines
2024-08-12	A polynomial account of Bayesian update
2024-08-02	Rethink math talks
2024-07-29	Our Summer Research Associates in 2024
2024-07-09	How to write a fantastic book in four months, Part III
2024-07-04	How to write a fantastic book in four months, Part II
2024-06-28	How to write a fantastic book in four months, Part I
2024-06-24	Toward compact double categories: Part 2
2024-06-20	Toward compact double categories: Part 1
2024-06-03	Applied Category Theory for Engineering Design: A Teaser Video
2024-05-28	Launching new collaboration with Chapman University
2024-04-25	Ontological Commitments for Boundaries
2024-04-05	Understanding UMAP
2024-03-27	Poly @ Work 2024
2024-03-13	A Retrospective on the Oxford–Topos Meeting
2024-02-02	SCAI — AI for the Global Good
2024-01-29	Algebras are promonads
2024-01-18	Composing springs
2024-01-15	Why double categories? Part 1
2024-01-09	Building dynamic structures
2024-01-03	Poly-morphic effect handlers
2023-12-14	Responsible mathematics and metaphors of semantics
2023-12-05	Trustworthy Reification
2023-11-28	Categorical Statistics in Julia
2023-11-23	Mathematics for climate change
2023-11-17	Topos researchers win Best Paper Award at AAAI Fall Symposium 2023
2023-11-14	Introducing InterTypes
2023-11-13	Solving problem-solving
2023-10-26	Lie groups induce Hopf monoids in Poly
2023-10-20	Retrotransformations
2023-10-13	Cartesian double theories
2023-10-09	Our Summer Research Associates in 2023
2023-09-21	Powers of polynomial monads
2023-08-15	Unbiased monoidal categories are pseudo-elements
2023-07-21	A nuclear adjunction between Poly and Dir
2023-07-11	Dialogue on a mathematical approach to the good
2023-07-07	Agent-based modeling via graph rewriting
2023-06-22	Welcoming our new Director of Research, Shaowei Lin
2023-06-20	Acsets with variables
2023-06-17	Singular Learning Theory and Alignment Summit 2023
2023-06-15	Towards a Research Program on Compositional World-Modeling
2023-05-26	Natural transformations between cofunctors
2023-05-12	Categories for Epidemiology
2023-05-08	Symbolic presentations of dynamical systems
2023-04-24	Spooling out syntax from behavior
2023-04-11	Conegation rewriting
2023-04-05	Imperative Programming with Poly
2023-03-29	Seventy Years Using Fixed Points
2023-03-23	Algebraic geometry for the working programmer
2023-03-23	Lotteries: a constructive version of the distributions monad
2023-03-15	Structured cospans as a cocartesian equipment
2023-03-09	Category theorists welcome self-learners in a new outreach panel
2023-03-06	Women in Logic: the history so far
2023-02-22	What made the FRA workshop structure successful?
2023-02-09	Ask Eugenia Cheng about Category Theory!
2023-01-31	Promonoidal categories and wiring diagrams
2023-01-10	Recursive Types via Domain Theory
2023-01-05	Preparing for Networked Mathematics
2022-12-20	Lenses are semi-monads, maybe lenses are monads
2022-12-12	Research opportunities at Topos in early 2023
2022-12-06	Dialectica Categories in Computing
2022-11-23	Scott’s model of lambda calculus
2022-11-19	Statement on Topos and the FTX Foundation
2022-11-16	Mathematical concepts: how do you recognize them?
2022-11-07	Where matter and pattern meet
2022-11-04	Who is category theory for?
2022-10-28	When you light up, I light up
2022-10-24	Project cards: a tool for research transparency
2022-10-14	JMM Workshop on ACT for teaching and learning
2022-10-09	In celebration of Dana Scott
2022-10-07	Ethics, Technology, and Embracing the 21st Century
2022-10-04	So, what is category theory anyway?
2022-09-29	Nate & Jesse’s adjoint 5-tuple
2022-09-20	Using categorical logic for AI planning
2022-09-12	A dynamic monoidal category for strategic games
2022-09-06	Data Operations are Functorial Semantics
2022-09-01	What does it take to run a research nonprofit?
2022-08-24	Strategies for ethically oriented pursuit of research and technology
2022-08-19	Imagining Bicomodules with Type Theory
2022-08-10	Computation and Category Theory
2022-08-04	It’s Proly like Poly but better
2022-07-14	Our Summer Research Associates in 2022
2022-07-12	Dialectica categories and polynomial functors, Part 1
2022-07-07	A 15-year history of my research program, in 10 minutes
2022-06-16	Graphs in Poly
2022-06-07	All models are wrong, but…
2022-06-03	An account of sense-making
2022-05-30	Decorated cospans via the Grothendieck construction
2022-05-23	Grothendieck construction for double categories
2022-05-20	Join Topos as a senior leader in finance and operations!
2022-05-18	The “artificial” distinction
2022-04-18	The many facets of Networked Mathematics
2022-04-15	Diagrammatic equations and multiphysics, Part 2
2022-04-08	Diagrammatic equations and multiphysics, Part 1
2022-04-06	Co-design of dynamical systems
2022-03-29	2022 Workshop on Polynomial Functors
2022-03-25	Creating mathematics
2022-03-22	Brits in Berkeley
2022-03-17	Launch of the Women in Logic website
2022-03-15	So, what’s the plan?
2022-03-01	Call for 2022 Summer Research Associates
2022-02-21	Topos seeks Research Software Engineer
2022-02-15	Playing with Shapes at Topos
2022-01-19	Poly makes me happy and smart
2022-01-07	Topos Institute seminars in 2022
2021-12-30	Creating new categories from old: Selection categories
2021-12-02	Topos in 2021: a retrospective
2021-11-24	Left adjoints, lenses, and localisation
2021-11-05	Deep neural networks as nested dynamical systems
2021-11-04	Categorical systems theory
2021-10-08	We’re looking for a postdoc!
2021-09-22	Poly inside Poly
2021-09-09	Compositional Thermostatics
2021-09-02	Enriched categories as dynamical systems
2021-08-24	Announcing Em-Cats
2021-07-25	Dirichlet polynomials and entropy
2021-07-19	Get to know our Summer Research Associates
2021-07-11	Introducing the MathFoldr Project
2021-07-08	Seminars and workshops so far
2021-07-01	Jump monads: from conjugation to dependent types
2021-06-30	Welcome to the Topos Blog