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
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