scholarly journals Can Minimalism Account for the Value of Truth?

Disputatio ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (24) ◽  
pp. 271-279
Author(s):  
Edward Moad
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Michael Dummett ◽  
Paul Horwich ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Redundancy Theory Of Truth ◽  
Minimalist Conception

Abstract Michael Dummett, in ‘Truth,’ mounted an objection to the redundancy theory of truth on the grounds that it neglects to account for the normative features he claimed are part of the concept of truth. Paul Horwich, in ‘The Minimalist Conception of Truth’, notes that the same objection could be leveled against minimalism. He defends minimalism against Dummett’s objection by offering a sketch of an instrumental account of the desirability of truth that is compatible with the minimalist thesis. In this paper, I will review Dummett’s objection and Horwich’s response, identifying some concerns with the account as it stands. I will modify the account to address those concerns, and so that it successfully explains the desirability of having all true beliefs in a way that is compatible with minimalism. I then mount an argument that truth is also intrinsically valuable. The question regarding the adequacy of the minimalist account of truth, then, hinges on whether the account is compatible with the fact of truth’s intrinsic value, along with the question of whether that fact entails its also being essentially valuable.

scholarly journals A Truth-minimalist Reading of Foucault

Le foucaldien ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Buekens
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Institutional Facts ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Minimalist Conception ◽  
Contingent Existence ◽  
The Way

That we have culturally acquired certain concepts and beliefs, that many concepts that refer to or impose social or cultural classifications have their origin in intended or unintended declarative speech acts, that the institutional facts they intentionally and unintentionally create have a contingent existence and that it is not always fully transparent to us that the facts so created are institutional facts, were Foucault's key insights in his early work. I argue that these insights can be fully articulated, explored and discussed with a minimalist conception of truth in mind. His observations anticipate current "rediscoveries" of those insights by analytic philosophers. A minimalist about truth holds that these insights do not require a revision of our ordinary concept of truth. The flip side of my argument is that Foucault and his followers should not have grounded his views in a substantial revision of the concept of truth. Truth is and has always been "a thing of this world"; his idiosyncratic reconceptualizations of truth are not needed to explore social dimensions of belief systems, the way social facts emerge and the relevance of genealogies.

The Intrinsic Value of Cooperation

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fisher ◽  
Yany Gregoire ◽  
Kyle B. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value

Conversation with a Truth Seeker

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap Bos
Keyword(s):  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This paper is an invited response to Peter Rudnytsky's ‘Guardians of truth’ article. Taking issue with what are presented as fundamental theoretical and methodological caveats, this article discusses the question of when and how differing discourses on the history of psychoanalysis may or may not be compatible. In particular the author questions the validity of a concept of truth as defined from within a field of knowledge, to arrive at definitions of discourse and dialogue that can be useful to acquire new forms of knowledge.

Metamorphosen des Autors im Internet

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Julia Genz
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Periodic Schedule ◽  
Literary Authorship ◽  
The One ◽  
Death Of The Author

Digital media transform social options of access with regard to producers, recipients, and literary works of art themselves. New labels for new roles such as »prosumers « and »wreaders« attest to this. The »blogger« provides another interesting new social figure of literary authorship. Here, some old desiderata of Dadaism appear to find a belated realization. On the one hand, many web 2.0 formats of authorship amplify and widen the freedom of literary productivity while at the same time subjecting such production to a periodic schedule. In comparison to the received practices of authors and recipients many digital-cultural forms of narrating engender innovative metalepses (and also their sublation). Writing in the net for internet-publics enables the deliberate dissolution of the received autobiographical pact with the reader according to which the author’s genuine name authenticates the author’s writing. On the other hand, the digital-cultural potential of dissolving the autobiographical pact stimulates scandals of debunking and unmasking and makes questions of author-identity an issue of permanent contestation. Digital-cultural conditions of communication amplify both: the hideand- seek of authorship as well as the thwarting of this game by recipients who delight in playing detective. In effect, pace Foucault’s and Barthes’ postulates of the death of the author, the personality and biography of the author once again tend to become objects of high intrinsic value

Valuation Beta: Addressing Inadequacies of Book to Price with Intrinsic Value, Stewardship and Leverage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Resendes ◽  
Daniel Obrycki ◽  
Derek Bergen ◽  
John Holt
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value

Constructing Intrinsic Value Estimates of Equity Using IBES and Value Line Forecasts of Fundamentals

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Courteau ◽  
Philip Gray ◽  
Jennifer L. Kao ◽  
Terry O'Keefe ◽  
Gordon D. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value

Growing Pains at Groupon

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurav K. Dutta ◽  
Dennis H. Caplan ◽  
David J. Marcinko
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Securities And Exchange Commission ◽  
Internal Controls ◽  
Revenue Recognition ◽  
Material Weakness ◽  
Going Public ◽  
Right Of Return ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
Financial Metrics

ABSTRACT On November 4, 2011, Groupon Inc. went public with an initial market capitalization of $13 billion. The business was formed a couple of years earlier as an offshoot of “The Point.” The business grew rapidly and increased its reported revenue from $14.5 million in 2009 to $1.6 billion in 2011. Soon after going public, prior to its announcement of its first-quarter results, the company's auditors required Groupon to disclose a material weakness in its internal controls over financial reporting that impacted its disclosures on revenue and its estimation of returns. This case uses Groupon to motivate discussion of financial reporting issues in e-commerce businesses. Specifically, the case focuses on (1) revenue recognition practices for “agency” type e-commerce businesses, (2) accounting for sales with a right of return for new products, and (3) use of alternative financial metrics to better convey the intrinsic value of a business. The case requires students to critically read, analyze, and apply authoritative accounting guidance, and to read and analyze communications between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the registrant.

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