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Taking Stock: Philosophy and Accountancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Michael Power
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Philosophy , Volume 61 , Issue 237 , July 1986 , pp. 387 - 394
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1986

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References

1 Lyas, C., ‘Philosophers and Accountants’, Philosophy 59, No. 227 (01 1984).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ibid., 109.

3 Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University Press, 1979). See also Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982).Google Scholar

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5 See Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Truth and Method, translated and edited by Barden, Garrett and Cumming, John (New York: Seabury Press, 1975).Google Scholar

6 See Bernstein, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism, 156–157.

7 Sterling, Robert, Toward a Science of Accounting (Houston: Scholar's Book Company, 1979)Google Scholar and ‘Accounting at the Crossroads’, Journal of Accountancy (August 1976).

8 See Stamp, Edward, ‘Accounting Standards and the Conceptual Framework: A Plan for their Evolution’, The Accountant's Magazine (07 1981) 216–222.Google Scholar

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10 See Hugh Willmott, ‘Setting Accounting Standards in the U.K.: The Emergence of Private Accounting Bodies and their Role in the Regulation of Public Accounting Practice’ (forthcoming).