Jacob's book titled "Categorical Logic and Type Theory" gives a nice description of Π and Σ types as adjunctions to substitution functors induced by display maps. Is there a similar categorical description of W-types (and maybe M-types while we are at it)?



Categorical semantics of W-types
The categorical semantics of W-types, as initial algebras, have been studied in the following paper of Moerdijk and Palmgren: "Wellfounded trees in categories", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 104(2000), 189 - 218.


