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History of CVI Conferences
The Conference on Value Inquiry has had long and rich history, as evidenced by its recent quarter-century celebration. For much of its history, the Conference has been housed at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, under the direction of Executive Director of the Conference, Thomas Magnell. Magnell is past president of the American Society for Value Inquiry and current director of the Conference on Value Inquiry and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry.
Each year a particular theme for the conference is selected by the program coordinator. In 1994 for example, the theme was Conflicting Values, in 1995, Public and Private Values, in 1996, Inherent and Instrumental Values, in 1997, Values in Business. The Theme of the 1998 conference is Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Value.
The Conference celebrated its Silver Anniversary in 1997, when the theme was Values in Business. The conference was hosted in Boone, NC by Jesse Taylor of the Philosophy Department of Appalachian State University and by Robbin Derry of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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, 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 will be holding 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. The Conference has a mandate to be inclusive and has an appeal far beyond the typical professional philosophy conference.
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