Ludovika University of Public Service
Research Institute for Politics and Government

MacIntyre 90 – Practice, Tradition, Natural Law

 

DATE: 27-28 June 2019

VENUE:
National University of Public Service
Budapest, Ludovika square 2.
main building, 1st floor, room Hunyadi

Program:

JUNE 27, THURSDAY

15:00 – 15:15 OPENING REMARKS
KEYNOTE TALK I.
Chair: Tamás Paár
15:15 – 16:05 Ron Beadle (Northumbria University, Newcastle): What Should We Learn from Misappropriations of MacIntyre?
16:05 – 16:35 DISCUSSION
16:35 –16:55 COFFEE BREAK

KEYNOTE TALK II.
Chair: Ferenc Hörcher
16:55 – 17:45 Arthur Madigan, S.J. (Boston College, MA): Alasdair MacIntyre's Reading of Aquinas's Natural Law
17:45 – 18:15 DISCUSSION

JUNE 28, FRIDAY

SESSION I.
Chair: Zoltán Balázs
10:00 – 10:20 Elif Nur Balci (Abant University, Turkey): Morality and God: Reconceiving MacIntyre's Position
10:20 – 10:40 Gábor Kendeffy (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): An Augustinan Antecedent of MacIntyre’s Concept of Practice
10:40 – 11:00 Dániel Golden (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): MacIntyre, Rorty, and Gadamer on the Role of Tradition in Philosophy
11:00 – 11:20 Caleb Bernacchio (IESE Business School, Barcelona): MacIntyre and/or Brandom? Hegel with Aquinas?
11:20 – 12:00 DISCUSSION
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH BREAK

SESSION II.
Chair: Péter Lautner
13:00 – 13:20 Brigitta Balogh (Partium Christian University, ,Oradea): Practice, Meaning and Non-discursive Knowledge. On Alasdair MacIntyre’s Concept of Rationality
13:20 – 13:40 Dario Mazzola (University of Bergamo / Theological Institute Laurentianum, Milan): MacIntyre’s Conception of Natural Law: Defining Aspects and Critical Perspectives
13:40 – 14:00 Brendan Hogan (New York University): Imagination and the Ends of Practical Reason
14:00 – 14:20 Miryam Morales Benito (University of Navarra): MacIntyre and Virtue: The More Vichianism, the Less Virtue-Ethicism
14:20 – 15:00 DISCUSSION
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION III.
Chair: Csaba Olay
15:30 – 15:50 Ferenc Hörcher (National University of Public Service / Hungarian Academy of Sciences): MacIntyre on the Practical Knowledge of Local Communities. The Example of the Fishing Village
15:50 – 16:10 Kamil Aksiuto (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin): Alasdair MacIntyre as a Critic of the Modern State
16:10 – 16:30 Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): Countering Conservatives and Learning from Liberals - or Vice Versa? MacIntyre's Mill against Deneen's Burke
16:30 – 16:50 Peter Wicks (Elm Institute, CT): What Is Emotivist Culture?
16:50 – 17:30 DISCUSSION

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS:
National University of Public Service
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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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CALL FOR PAPERS


The National University of Public Service and the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing an international conference in honour of Alasdair MacIntyre. 

Date and venue: June 27-28, 2019, Budapest, Hungary

The 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, the organizers have invited as keynote speakers Ron Beadle (Northumbria University) and Robert P. George (Princeton). Abstract submissions engaging the wide-ranging oeuvre of MacIntyre are also welcomed. 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@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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