Report on the 28th Conference on Value Inquiry

The 28th Conference on Value Inquiry was held April 13-15, 2000. It was one of the largest conferences in the US devoted to moral philosophy an other investigations of evaluative concerns, and the second largest Conference on Value Inquiry ever. In his paper at the conference, Professor Thomas Magnell focused on the context of moral justification, as opposed to that of moral decision-making, and in that vein, began examining moral conflicts confronting individual moral agents. Professor Julius Moravcsik argued that an account of communal dynamics is conceptually prior to the framing of legal and political structures. Both political structures and communal dynamics make use of a set of overlapping concepts, but their employment in communal dynamics is prior to that found in accounts of legal and political institutions.