Reality and Accounting Ontological Explorations in the Economic and Social Sciences Routledge New Works in Accounting History Series
Auteur : Mattessich Richard
This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other?s endeavours in ontological research. Even more importantly, the book aims at familiarizing scholars from various disciplines with an evolutionary approach for examining questions about reality in the social sciences.
The book is based on a partly pluralistic approach that assures unity in diversity. Unity, because all existence arises from physical reality; diversity, because emergent properties create biological and social realities that cannot bereduced to physical phenomena. Hence, the book recognizes not only concrete but also abstract entities. It shows, however, that the actualization of these abstract entities requires objectification and concrete manifestation. This pluralistic approach is central to this book. It also is a challenge to those who reject abstract entities as socially real, as well as to those who defend a non-realist position.
The major task of this book is to explore proposals towards a uniform ontological basis. This uniform and universal presentation extends beyond traditional ontology (asking ?what is real??) to such questions as ?on which reality level is something real?? and ?in which (temporal and modal) way is it real??. Such an extended analysis) is relevant to accountants, economists, information scientists, other social scientists as well as philosophers.
Preface 1. Introduction: Scope of the book and survey of subsequent chapters 2. Further reflections on ontology 3. Bhaskar’s transcendentalism and related philosophies 4. Social reality: its manifestation in accounting and management 6. FASB and social reality—an alternate realist view 7. Accounting and John Searle’s social ontology 8. Aspects of Mario Bunge’s ontology: A comparison (with the views of John Searle and others) 9. Propositions to an extension of the Onion Model of Reality 10. Heterodox economics and ontology 11. Ontology of systems science, and thoughts on quantum reality as well as chaos theory
Richard Mattessich is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Date de parution : 07-2013
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Date de parution : 12-2016
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domain; ontology; general; critical; realism; mario; bunge; top; level; ontologies; Federal Reserve System; Federal Reserve; Vice Versa; Social Cultural Reality; Top Level Ontology; Downward Causation; Heterodox Economics; Domain Ontologies; Onion Model; Searle's Social Ontology; Social Cultural Level; Quantum Computers; Ontologically Subjective; Bhaskar's CR; Strange Attractors; General Ontology; General Relativity Theory; Cosmic Evolution; Critical Realism; Sumo; Macintosh Team; Alethic Truth; Ontology Languages; Evolutionary Game Theory; International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation