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28 J. Value Inquiry 1 (1994)

handle is hein.journals/jrnlvi28 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Value Inquiry: Twenty-five years JAMES B. WILBUR Founder and Advisory Editor Sitting at my desk pondering the first twenty-five years, 1967-1991, of The Journal of Value Inquiry under my editorship, there are some things that need to be said in an introduction to an index of the contents of those years. The first is to recognize the excellent support given to me for the Journal and the Conferences on Value Inquiry by the Administration of the State University of New York College at Geneseo. Within that context, my appreciation and warm- est thanks go to Freda Hark and to Pam Thomas who, each over a ten-year span, enabled the running and structuring of both enterprises. Working with friends is a pleasure. The same appreciation and thanks go to Hannelore Brown-Knauff who was my desk editor at Nijhoff (now Kluwer) over most of those years and who corrected my errors and put up with my opinions. The issues of JVI are all neatly bound in twelve volumes before me, some seven thousand seven hundred pages, around seven hundred and twenty papers, all of which I have read at least three times. Quite obviously, it is true that the index represents papers that appealed to me, in that they were accepted for publi- cation out of the roughly thirty-five hundred papers received during the period. Although the title of the Journal stated baldly that its concern was Value Inquiry, it would have been difficult to say exactly what that involved except that I wasn't happy with the subjective status to which values, and especially the moral ones, had been relegated by positivism, naturalism, and pragmatism. Logical analysis seemed to bake no bread, either. Perhaps, I was some kind of a cognitivist who, while properly impressed with what science was able to accom- plish in its concern with nature, was properly distressed at the reductio ad absur- dum that the application of its methods to the nature of the human produced. Hopefully, there would be others in the field with similar concerns, and, for my part, the founding of the Journal was an attempt to collect and make available, as well as to stimulate, work on the nature and foundations of value. This orienta- tion placed very few limitations upon what could be considered for publication The Journal of Value Inquiry 28: 1-3, 1994.

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