International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry
4th
Annual Conference
PAPERS
Mykolas
Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Friday
July 29 – Sunday August 1, 2010
Extended
Deadline: 1 March 2010
ISME encourages paper
proposals addressing the entire spectrum of ethical,
social, political, historical and ideological problems
related to the current economic crisis, drawing on or
responding to the works of Alasdair
MacIntyre.
Keynote Speakers
Bob
Brecher
Center for
Research and Development, University of Brighton
Zenonas
Norkus
Department of Sociology,
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vilnius
John
O’Neill
School of Social Sciences,
University of Manchester
Clemens
K. Stepina
Institute for Theatre, Film
and Media Sciences, University of Vienna
Other
Participants:
1.
John
O’Neill
2.
Clemens
Stepina
3.
Zenonas
Norkus
4. Bob
Brecher
5. Aaron
Ben-Ze'ev
6. Adam
Chmielewski
7. Andrey
Sychev
8. Andrius
Bielskis
9. Brian
Boyd
10. Buket
Korkut-Raptis
11. Caleb
Bernacchio
12. Carol
Horn
13. Christopher Luzt
14. Dangis
Gudelis
15. Evelyn
Mazzucco
16. Ferenc
Hörcher
17. Geoff
Moore
18. Harold
Greenstein
19. Ignasi
Llobera Trias
20. Ján
Baňas
21.
Jenifer Booth
22.
Jesse Carlson
23.
Katinka Waelbers
24.
Adam
Briggle
25. Kelvin
Knight
26. Ken
Casey
27.
Maria
Vorozhishcheva
28.
Marian Kuna
29.
Mariya
Rohozha
30.
Mariusz
Wojewoda
31. Matthew
Sinnicks
32.
Mauro Di
Lullo
33.
Michael
Schwartz
34.
Michael Funk
Deckard
35. Michael
J. O’Neill
36. Mustafa
Ongun
37. Neil Davidson
38.
Niko
Noponen
39.
Pedro J.
Llosa-Vélez
40.
Peter
McMylor
41.
Philip E.
Devine
42.
Piotr
Machura
43. Raj
Sehgal
44. Richard
Poirier
45. Robert
Duncan
46. Romuald
Piekarski
47.
Ron Beadle
48. Russell
Keat
49. Sam
Coe
50. Saulius
Arlauskas
51. Tony
Burns
52. Vera
Melnichuk
THEME:Virtue
and Economic Crises
Alasdair MacIntyre once argued
that Karl Marx left philosophy and turned to political
economy at a time when his philosophical enquiry was still
incomplete. From After Virtue
to
Dependent
Rational Animals MacIntyre’s work has laid a
solid philosophical foundation for building an
understanding of the nature of human rationality, virtue
and practice. This conference aims to encourage
interdisciplinary research into the field of ethics,
philosophy, political economy, social theory and theology
in order to think through the moral and political aspects
of the future of economic development. Its underlying
presupposition rests in our belief that the orthodox
neoclassical economic theory has to be theoretically
challenged. A robust Aristotelian social theory and moral
philosophy can contribute in rethinking these
presuppositions and beliefs.
Possible
Questions to Address Include:
♦ The importance of moral and
intellectual virtues for equitable economic development.
♦
What are the moral
and philosophical presuppositions behind the neoclassical
economic thought and behind the existing socio-economic
order of market capitalism?
♦
What can economic
theory learn from moral philosophy and virtue ethics?
♦
What is the role
of business ethics in times of economic
crises?
♦ What does the current economic
crisis tell us about the place of an ethics of social
relationships in the economic system of advanced
modernity?
Please submit proposals,
including title and abstract, of no more than 350 words to:
Dr. Andrius Bielskis, Department of Politics, Mykolas
Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, e-mail:
Andrius Bielskis
Conference website