[MaFLa] Felhívás: MacIntyre 90

[Tamás Paár]

*MacIntyre 90 – Practice, Tradition, Natural Law*

National University of Public Service
Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
June 27, 2019

An international conference in honor of Alasdair MacIntyre

Our conference is conceived to honor the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, who
turned 90 this year. He is among the most important figures of contemporary
philosophy and has touched upon several topics during his long-spanning
career since his first publication in 1950. These topics pertain to, among
other fields, moral philosophy, medical ethics, political theory,
philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science,
philosophy of language, aesthetics and the philosophy of education; while
all kinds of academic disciplines besides philosophy have benefited from
his contributions, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, history,
theology, business studies, etc. His views have changed significantly
during these years, and he subsequently managed to incorporate in his
philosophy insights from diverse thinkers like Marx, Aristotle and Aquinas
– to name just the most important ones for him from the hundreds whose
ideas he has fruitfully engaged with.

To honor this occasion, we have invited as keynote speakers *Ron Beadle*
(Northumbria University) and *Robert P. George* (Princeton). We also
welcome abstract submissions engaging the wide-ranging oeuvre of MacIntyre.
Proposed topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the
following:

1)    MacIntyre and his roots: Gaelic culture

2)    The changes in MacIntyre’s thinking

3)    MacIntyre’s relationship to Marxism

4)    MacIntyre’s blend of NeoAristotelianism

5)    Thomism and natural law

6)    Is MacIntyre a virtue ethicist?

7)    Narratives and the unity of human lives

8)    The notion of tradition

9)    The problem of moral rationality

10)           Human rights and justice

11)           The prospects for the politics of local communities today

12)           Criticisms and defenses of liberalism, conservatism and
communitarianism

13)           MacIntyre and analytic/continental philosophy

14)           MacIntyre and religion

15)           *Dependent Rational Animals *at 20: naturalist ethics and
biology



Proposals – including the name, e-mail address, affiliation and position of
the speaker, a title and an *abstract of 1500 characters* – should be sent *by
April 30*, 2019 to paar.tamas at gmail.com with ‘MacIntyre 90 proposal’ as
their topic. Feel free to send any inquiries concerning the conference to
the same address.

Organizers:
Ferenc Hörcher (National University of Public Service, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)
Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Zoltán Turgonyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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