Truth used to be a monolithic monad which was single and absolute. Postmodern truth is contrarily multiple ambiguous. It no longer the divine Form held by Plato, nor does it solely depend on verifiability as suggested Ayer. also viewed cultural phenomenon constructed power according Foucault productive rather than depressive. closely related Nietzsche’s view that there truth, only int...

Abstract This article interrogates twelve step practice within Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from the perspective of Foucault’s later work on governance, truth-telling and subjectivity. Recent critical studies addiction tend to view self-help cultures like that AA related programs as integral parts contemporary power/knowledge complexes, thus agents modern “will knowledge” Foucault often engages wi...

The notion of weak truth-table reducibility plays an important role in recursion theory. In this paper, we introduce an elaboration of this notion, where a computable bound on the use function is explicitly specified. This elaboration enables us to deal with the notion of asymptotic behavior in a manner like in computational complexity theory, while staying in computability theory. We apply the...