Greetings from Warrensburg!
Three of the four papers for the 1st Virtual Symposium on Value Inquiry are
now on-line at
http://cape.cmsu.edu/html/symposium.html. The fourth paper
will be on-line tomorrow afternoon. The virtual symposium will start April
21 -- some of the virtual presenters are also actual presenters at the 27th
Conference on Value Inquiry and thus will post their initial comments to the
virtual symposium before they leave to attend the actual conference -- and
end May 21st, 1999.
The papers and authors are as follows:
Neil Grossman (University of Illinois, Chicago)
"The Virtue of Virtue Theories"
Ronald Jump (The Institute of Formal Social Sciences)
"A Non-Arbitrary, Natural Theory of Values"
Imafedia Okhamafe (University of Nebraska)
"The Problem with the Relativity of Values"
Arthur E. Parry and Harvey E. Solganick (Missouri Baptist College)"Is there
an Ultimate Meta-Question in Value Theory?"
For your further information you might also want to know the following:
The theme of the conference, as well as the Virtual Symposium, is
"Twentieth-Century Values." The conference is truly an international
conference with at least 150 people coming to Central Missouri State
University from 5 of the 7 continents and 11 different countries including
Australia, Canada, England, India, Israel, the Netherlands, the Philippines,
Ukraine, Russia, Singapore, and Wales. In addition to the 150 people
actually coming to CMSU, there are an additional 50 or more people attending
the 1st Virtual Symposium on Value Inquiry over the INTERNET and they are
located in the following countries: Brazil, Canada, Germany, New Zealand,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South America (the country of which I
have not yet been able to determine), and the United States. In total that
makes almost 200 people from 6 of the 7 seven continents and from a total of
17 countries, not including the United States.
In addition to being the largest Value Inquiry conference ever held, the
27th Conference on Value Inquiry ranks in the top 10% of philosophical
conferences held by academic societies. Moreover, this conference will take
its place in history as the second largest gathering of philosophers in the
state of Missouri. I am enclosing a copy of the conference program for the
27th Conference on Value Inquiry and, for your convenience, I have included
a list of the plenary speakers below.
Plenary Session Speakers
Thursday, April 22, 1999 from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. London Room, University Inn
Professor Thomas Magnell (Harvard Medical School and Drew University)
Value Inquiry in a New Millennium
Friday, April 23, 1999 from 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. University Union, Room 240
Professor David Gauthier (University of Pittsburgh)
The Best of Times
Friday, April 23, 1999 from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. London Room, University Inn
Professor Emeritus Antony Flew (University of Reading, England)
How and What Morality Can Be Taught Today?
Saturday, April 24, 1999 from 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. W. C. Morris Auditorium
Professor Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Gauthier and Libertarianism
Saturday, April 24, 1999 from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. London Room, University Inn
Professor Susan Feagin (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Culture, Appropriation, and Aesthetic Value
The Conference on Value Inquiry is associated with the American Society for
Value Inquiry, the International Society for Value Inquiry and the Journal
of Value Inquiry. The American Society for Value Inquiry is an affiliated
Society of the American Philosophical Association (APA), and holds meetings
at all APA Divisional Meetings. Past presidents of the American Society for
Value Inquiry include Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) and Tom Regan
(North Carolina State University). The International Society for Value
Inquiry holds annual meetings in Europe, and both the American and
International Societies held concurrent meetings in 1998 at the World
Congress of Philosophy in Boston.
The Conference on Value Inquiry is truly interdisciplinary in nature, as an
examination of its past topics and participants will reveal. The Conference
is open to the study of value from all approaches, including both academic
and artistic. The 1995 conference included presentations as diverse as a
paper by a Methodist minister (Robert Price's "Malcolm X and Jesus X") and
an art presentation about the holocaust given by an artist who lost his
family in the holocaust (Arie Galles's "The Fourteen Stations"). In addition
to these, scholars from the fields of English, Psychology, Social Sciences,
Natural Sciences, History, Political Science, Fine Arts and Business
routinely present papers at the conferences.
This conference is free and open to the public. All the papers presented
at this conference, except for the Plenary Sessions as noted above, will
take place in the University Union. For further information about the
conference, please phone the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at
543-4268 or visit the center's web site at
http://cape.cmsu.edu.
Regards, Kenn
Kenneth F.T. Cust
Conference Coordinator
27th Conference on Value Inquiry
Center for Applied & Professional Ethics
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg, MO 64093
kencust@philosophical-services.com
For the latest information on the 27th Conference on Value Inquiry, please
see our web site at http://cape.cmsu.edu.