The International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry

Room 150
Chair: Chris Lutz

“Fancy Ethics: Desire, Imagination, Hunches”
Timothy O'Donnell (Ivy Tech Community College)

“Spirituality and Utopia: An Initial Conversation between Maritain, Eagleton, and MacIntyre”
Jeffery L. Nicholas (Providence College)

“Leadership and Desires: An Anthropologically-Based Study on the Relationship between Education of Desires and Character”
Sandra Hernández-González (Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara)

“How to Use MacIntyre’s Arguments Against Winch’s Relativism”
Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

Room G09
Chair: Ron Beadle

“The Family Resource Centers Network: A Community of Communities Flourishing between Genealogy and Encyclopedia”
Dominique Mailloux (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

“Crowding out Cool: The Role of Informality in Community-Based Institutions”
James Kelly (University of Notre Dame)

“Using MacIntyrean Insights to Expand the Boundaries of Social Work Theory and Practice”
James Mulvale (University of Manitoba)

”The Ecology of Design Excellence: Internal Goods and Their Role in Navigating Disciplinary Uncertainty”
Thomas Coulombe-Morency (Université de Montréal), Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal), and Guillaume Blum (Universite Laval)

Room G03/4
Chairs: Kleio Akrivou & Matt Sinnicks

“Whose Leadership? Which Ethics?: Servant Leadership for a Narrative Ethics”
Paul Jeffries (Ripon College)

”A Personalist Approach to Business Ethics: New Perspectives for Virtue Ethics and Servant Leadership”
Kleio Akrivou (University of Reading)

“MacIntyre and Authentic Leadership”
Matthew Sinnicks (University of Southampton) & Naveena Prakasam (University of Southampton)

“Leading by Exemplar? Macintyre, Living Well, and Leadership Theory”
Jeffrey Pocock (University of Bristol)

Room 150
Chair: Geoff Moore

“Managerialism and Leadership in the Modern University”
Peter Wicks (Elm Institute)

“The Idea of the University in the Conflicts of Modernity: Putting Paideia back into Academic Practice”
Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina)

“The Role of Academic Excellence in Overcoming the Conflicts of Modernity”
Chris Lutz (Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology)

“Religious Community and Moral Disagreement: A MacIntyrean Reflection on the 2017 Tim Keller Controversy at Princeton Theological Seminary”
James Besaw (St. John's College)

Room G09
Chair: Garrett Potts

“Taking Friendship Seriously”
Richard Kyte (Viterbo University)

“Conscience, Corruption, and Climate Change”
Roland Mees (University of Groningen)

“Leadership Based on Values in Action for Sustainability of Organizations”
Ivet de los Milagros Echevarría Velásquez (University of Navarra) & María Nuria Chinchilla (IESE Business School)

“‘Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic’: An Assessment of a Purported Pro-eating Disorder Website/Online Content Moral Panic in the United Kingdom (UK) and Appropriate Policy Responses to Such Websites/Online Content”
David Benbow (University of Sheffield)

Room G03/4
Chair: Kirk Mensch

“Balancing the Pluralistic Values in the Late Modern Era: Insights from Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann's Phenomenological Personalism to MacIntyrean Understanding of Practical Wisdom”
Kai Huang (University of Reading)

“A MacIntyrean Empirical Investigation into Management and Leadership: A Virtue and Character Development Study of Independent Practical Reasoning, Moral Courage, and the Virtue of Constancy in Leadership”
Efuntomi Wosu (University of Reading)

“Informal Community Leadership Practice and the Emergence of Collective Accountability”
Laura Dallman (Nottingham Trent University)

“The Soul’s Role in Leadership Exploring the Link between Virtue Ethics and Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams & Organizations”
Steven F. Mezzacappa (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

Room 150
Chair: Andrius Bielskis

“The House-painter’s Practice”
Ron Beadle (Northumbria University)

“Success Versus Excellence in an Elite Sport: the Case of the GB Rowing Team”
Geoff Moore (University of Durham)

“Business Legacy and MacIntyrean Tradition”
Nic Burton (Northumbria University)

“A MacIntyrean Approach to Work as a Calling”
Garrett Potts (University of South Florida)

Room G09
Chair: Jeff Pocock

“Thomistic Law and Practical Reasoning in the Nation”
John Macias (St. Mary's Seminary & University)

“Rights and Their Interpreters: To Be a Moral Role Model in Modern Judiciary”
Jiří Baroš (Masaryk University)

“Liberalism is not the Enemy of the Common Good”
Patrick Riordan (University of Oxford)

“Alasdair MacIntyre, the Anarchist? An Inquiry into MacIntyre’s Political Orientation”
Matti Eskelinen (University of Turku)

Room G03/4
Chair: Maks Belitski

“The Transformation of Teleology in and Bildung-Centered Pedagogical Thought?”
Erik Evensen (University of Agder)

“Transgender Participation in Athletics”
Jana Espy and Kirk Mensch (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

“Bridging Traditions: The Role of Natural Law in Islamic Human Rights Discourse”
Syed Sibte Ali Tirmizi (London Metropolitan University)

“A MacIntyrean Approach to Political Leadership”
Joe Simpson (London Metropolitan University)

Edith Morley Building, Room G25
Chair: Matt Sinnicks

“Composition vs. Performance: Using MacIntyre to Make Sense of the Tradition of Western Classical Music”
Reiss Kruger (York University) & Jonathan Raine (Western University)

“Kitsch, Art, and Ideology: On the Emancipatory Function of Art”
Andrius Bielskis (Kaunas University of Technology)

“Fictions of Leadership: Stories, Novels, Critics, and MacIntyre”
Rob Chodat (Boston University)

“Expressions of Preference: Testing the Limits of Emotivist Critique in the Art of Carey Young”
Simon Willems (University of Reading)

Room G09
Chair: Kai Huang

“More Institutional Authority, Less Organizational Leadership”
Javier N. González-Camargo (Pontificia Università Salesiana di Roma) and Wilmar Javier Medina Lozano (Sergio Arboleda University)

“The Limits of Profitable Virtue: A Critical Assessment of ESG, DEI and ‘Doing Well to Do Good’ Approaches in Corporate Ethical Leadership”
Andrew Lynn (University of Virginia)

“Leadership Without Leaders: Managers and “Political Entrepreneurs” in Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Taylor”
Thomas Pearson (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

“Moral Enquiry meets Artificial Intelligence: Considering Influences of Interactive Algorithmic-based Ethical Decision Making on Agentive Wellbeing”
Kirk Mensch (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

Room G03/4
Chair: Efuntomi Wosu

“Politics, Ethics, and Commitment: Reconsidering Ideology and Leadership in MacIntyre”
Joe Stapleton (Independent Scholar)

“Fragmented or Differentiated Moral Discourse in Modernity? Comparing MacIntyre and Luhmann on Morality’s Progress”
Zsolt Garai (University of Pécs)

“A Theory of the Good”
Jason Bagley (Independent scholar)

“Democracy and its Solution”
Liam Grant (Independent scholar)