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29 J. Value Inquiry 1 (1995)

handle is hein.journals/jrnlvi29 and id is 1 raw text is: The Journal of Value Inquiry 29: 1-3, 1995. C 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Editorial Values in dialogue THOMAS MAGNELL Associate Editor Avid readers will have found the pieces under the heading Dialogue in the previous issues of this journal. This is a new feature which is intended to be a springboard for discussion. One place for continued discussion is our own Forum, and we welcome submissions to Forum provoked by our dialogues. But we hope that our dialogues will promote reflection that goes beyond the written word and enters the arena of active, verbal discourse. As a means of conveying and stimulating philosophical thought, the dia- logue has certain advantages. By nature informal, dialogues can be especially inviting. The back-and-forth dialectical thrusts of the speakers draw readers into unfamiliar arguments. The give and take in the questions and responses revisited by the speakers foster reasonableness by example. The occasional heated exchanges among the speakers give life to abstract philosophical is- sues. Dialogues are engaging. How many of us first came under the wing of the owl of Minerva after reading the dialogues of Plato, Berkeley, or Hume? No wonder, then, that the dialogue was co-opted by philosophers almost from the start. The wonder is that the dialogue could have been largely es- chewed in the twentieth century, with its burst of professional philosophical activity. A few attempts have been made in the last fifty years, most of them in England: the crossfires between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God, and between A. J. Ayer and Copleston on logical positivism; the brief exchanges by a dozen Oxford philosophers in two slim volumes edited by D. F. Pears, The Nature of Metaphysics and Freedom of the Will; the four extended exchanges between Ayer and Arne Naess, Karl Popper and John Eccles, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, and Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefebvre in Reflexive Water, edited by Fons Elders; the forty-two discussions, almost all again with Oxford philosophers, con- ducted by Bryan Magee, in three splendid volumes, Modern British Philoso- phy, Men of Ideas, and The Great Philosophers; several of the stimulating conversations with Bill Moyers set down in A World of Ideas and A World of Ideas II; and a recent collection of conversations with nine prominent Ameri-

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