Value Inquiry Network

ISVI Overview

The International Society for Value Inquiry was established in 1988 with the mission to facilitate discussion on questions of value across national boundaries. To this end this ISVI convenes every five years in conjunction with the World Congress of Philosophy and in the interim at various sites. Since its inception it convenes the largest participation among Societies gathered at these events. In addition to World Congress sites at Brighton, England; Moscow, Russia; Boston, USA; and most recently, Istanbul, Turkey, The ISVI meets a week before in nearby locations for the first phase of the World Congress proceedings, cities as, Arundel, England; Helsinki, Finland; and Florence, Italy. Among the sites of interim meetings are Costa Rica, Nairobi, and China.

ISVI NEWSLETTER

Fall 2005

Fall 2006

The Fourth ISVI World Conference

"Global Values in the Twenty-first Century"

The selected papers you are welcome to read at this site are, representative of the presentations during the conferences of 2003 held in Florence, Italy 5-8 August and in Istanbul, Turkey 10-17 August. Authors can be reached for further comment should you wish, by contacting the coordinator of the conferences, John M. Abbarno vonabbarno@aol.com The plans are now in place for the Second International Conference on Axiology in China, 12-16 June 2004 at Wuhan University in Wuhan City, China. For information on how to participate, contact G.John M. Abbarno at the above address.

Papers from Florence, Italy

Recasting Value Theories by G. John M. Abbarno
Private Values in a Public Arena by Thomas Magnell
The Impossibility of Global Values in the 21st Century: A Slight Exaggeration by George T. Hole
A Party Pooper's Report on Global Values by David Graves
Global Values: Actual, Unlikely, and Necessary by Thomas W. Platt
Global Value, Interdependency and the Paradox of Connectedness
by Charles J. Sabatino
Values and Valuing by David E. Schrader
Altruism and Environmental Concerns by Robin Attfield and Stephen Moller
A Global Authority - Classical Arguments and New Issues by W. J. Korab-Karpowicz
Can Some Valuable and Unattainable Goals be Rational? by Armando Cíntora
Valuing the Environment by David E. Schrader
Logic of Transcendence: Moral Inversion by John Bryant

Papers from Istanbul, Turkey

Philosophy, International Bodies, Global Values by Ferdinand Mutaawe Kasozi
About the Essence of Values by Hortensia Cuéllar
The Dilemma of Governance in Latin America by José Gpe. Vargas Hernández
Mexico State's Economic and Political Transition: From Entrepreneurial
State to State of Entrepreneurs by José Gpe. Vargas Hernández
The Women: Her Image and Her Fate by Carmen Ramos