ISME2025

Intellectual Traditions in Dialogue and Conflict

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July 10-12, 2025

The 18th Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry

Organized in collaboration with the Collegium Institute

Thursday, July 10

BREAKFAST
8:00–8:45
ARCH First Floor Lobby

OPENING ADDRESSES
8:45–9:15
ARCH 208

CONFERENCE OPENING
Kleio Akrivou (University of Reading/Henley Business School)
CONFERENCE WELCOME
Yelena Kalyuzhnova (University of Reading/Henley Business School)
CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION
Peter Wicks (Elm Institute)

KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
9:15–10:30
ARCH 208

“Becoming Aristotelians and Confucians With MacIntyre”
Professor May Sim (College of the Holy Cross)

COFFEE BREAK
10:30–10:45
ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 1
10:45–12:15

ARCH208
Economics and the Common Good

“Practical Reasoning about Individual and Common Goods”
Zorana Novakovic (London Metropolitan University)

“Polycentric Economic Institutions and the Logic of Common Goods”
Mark Hoipkemeier (University of Navarre)

“A MacIntyrean Development of Commutative Justice for Wage Workers”
Brian J. A. Boyd (Loyola University New Orleans)

ARCH200
Translating Between Traditions

“The Core Disagreement between MacIntyre and Gadamer”
Michael Maxwell Potts (University of Dallas)

“The Borderlands of MacIntyre’s Tradition”
Sebastian Castillo (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

“Can We Speak from House to House? Lessons from Heidegger”
Megan Furman (Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology)

ARCH108
MacIntyre & Twentieth-Century Ethics

“MacIntyre’s Critique of Dworkin Reconsidered in Light of Tradition”
Jack Boczar (University of Michigan)


”The Place of Ross in Twentieth-Century Ethics”
Robert Farley (Hillsborough Community College)

“Must Aristotelians Reject All Utilitarianisms?”
Noah Jones (University of Oklahoma)

LUNCH
12:15–1:30

ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 2
1:30–3:00

ARCH208
MacIntyre & Anscombe in Conversation

“Supererogation and Anscombe's Two Traditions of Ethical Inquiry”
Haidun Liu (Harvard University)

“Elizabeth Anscombe on Plain Persons”
Christopher James Wolfe (University of St Thomas)

“MacIntyre, Anscombe and Julius Kovesi: Three Ways Forward in Ethics”
Alan Tapper (Curtin University)

ARCH200
MacIntyre, Narrative, and Clinical Psychology

“Traditions in Dialogue and Conflict Within a Person: A Case Study of Synderesis in Modernity”
Dominique Mailloux (University of Québec in Trois-Rivières)

“The Narrative Unity of Life: An Early Episode in the Development of an Idea”
Phillip Piper (The Catholic University of America)

“Integrating Ethical and Therapeutic Perspectives”
Logan T. Bateman (Trinity Western University)

ARCH108
MacIntyre on Tradition and Modernity

“MacIntyre and Romano Guardini on the Search for an Orientation after the End of the Modern World”
Greg Beabout (Saint Louis University)

“Two Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Hannah Arendt and Franz Jägerstätter”
Sante Maletta (University of Bergamo)

“The Life and Times of a Tradition: A Brief, but Critical Look at the Alasdair MacIntyre Corpus”
Jeffrey Pocock (University of Bristol)

COFFEE BREAK
3:00–3:30
ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 3
3:30–5:00

ARCH208
Translating Between Aristotelian and Modern Military Traditions

“Exposing the Brokenness of Modern Leadership Education”
James N. Slear (United States Air Force, Air University)

“Enlisting Homer and the Greek Tragedians in Educating Military Leaders”
John M. Walker (United States Air Force, Air University)

“Machiavelli, Shakespeare and the War over the Military Mind”
Daniel A. Connelly (United States Air Force, Air University)

ARCH200
MacIntyre and the Catholic Moral Tradition

“The Tradition of Natural Law: How is Alasdair MacIntyre Situated within that Tradition?”
Thomas Pearson (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

“Obedience, Conscience, and Moral Autonomy in Matthew Levering, The Abuse of Conscience: Recognizing the Hallmarks of the Rationality of “Morality of Obligation"”
Christopher Stephen Lutz (Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology)

“‘His Delight is in the Law of the Lord’: Casuistry and Thomistic Practical Reasoning”
John Macias (St. Mary’s Seminary & University

ARCH108
MacIntyre, Law, and Human Rights

“After Justice: The Moral Foundations of the Civil Law of Contracts in the 21st Century”
Andrés Palacios Lleras (Del Rosario University) & Tatiana Rodríguez Leal (University of the Andes, Colombia)

“MacIntyre and the European Court of Human Rights”
Nils Victor Langensteiner (Luxembourg University)

“The Common Law as a MacIntyrean Tradition”
Michael Moreland (Villanova University)

(OPTIONAL) MEMORIAL MASS FOR ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
5:30–6:30
St. Agatha – St. James Parish

WORKSHOP FOR EARLY-CAREER SCHOLARS
6:30-8:00
New Deck Tavern

 

FRIDAY, July 11

BREAKFAST
8:00–8:45
ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 4
8:45–10:45

ARCH208
Author Meets Critics: The Price of the Common Good

Chair: Andrew Lynn (Villanova University)

Author: Mark Hoipkemeier (University of Navarre)

Respondents:
Caleb Bernacchio, Loyola University New Orleans
Jeffery Nicholas, Providence College
Matías Petersen, University of the Andes (Chile)

ARCH200
MacIntyre and Theology

“Herbert McCabe’s MacIntyrean Understanding of the Development of Doctrine”
Taylor Payne (Ave Maria University)

“Alasdair MacIntyre the Theologian? Engaging Rival Theological Traditions”
Fr. Joseph Scolaro (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas)

“Ecumenism in the Conflicts of Theology: A Tradition-Constituted Approach to Ecumenical Dialogue”
J. Burke Rea (Eastern University)

“The Quest for Truth: Reason, Religion, and Tradition in MacIntyre and Newman”
Joshua Johnston (Villanova University)

ARCH108
Engaging Particular Traditions

“Plato’s Guardians: Strain and Legitimacy in Early Christian Platonism”
Alfredo Watkins (Duke University)

“The Unity and Development of Early Franciscan Teachings on the Cardinal Virtues”
Michael Copas (The Catholic University of America)

“Reevaluating Súarez’s Impact in Modern Philosophy: Towards a Dialogue between Thomism and Suarezianism”
Raimundo R. Cox (University of Pittsburgh)

“Reconciling Rival Traditions: Aquinas on Sin, Ignorance, and Deliberate Wrongdoing”
Nicholas Ogle (University of Pennsylvania)

COFFEE BREAK
10:45–11:00
ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 5
11:00–12:30

ARCH208
MacIntyre, Anscombe, and Modern Moral Philosophy

“Anscombe and MacIntyre on Justice”
John Berkman (University of Toronto)

“Are Human Needs a Sufficient Foundation for Morality? Anscombe’s Perspective on MacIntyre’s Views of Morality’s Basis”
Georgina Raventós (University of Barcelona)

“Anscombe and MacIntyre on the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality”
Peter Wicks (Yale University)

ARCH200
Tradition in the Age of AI

“Reasoning Beyond Tradition: Artificial Intelligence and the Fragmentation of Rationality”
Lily M. Abadal (University of South Florida)

“The Irrelevance of Tradition in a Digital Workplace”
Pablo García-Ruiz (University of Zaragoza)

“Are Dependent Artificial Intelligences Possible?”
Nurit Matuk Blaustein (University of Southern California) & Jeremy Freeman (Independent Scholar)

ARCH108
Applying MacIntyre’s Theory of Practices

“Examining the Tradition of Civil-Military Relations”
Bart Kennedy (Independent Scholar)

“Beyond Simulacra: MacIntyre and the Emerging Practices of the Social Internet”
Benjamin Ball (Yale Divinity School)

“In or Out? How Does the Public Fit into the Practice of Journalism?”
Sandra L. Borden (Western Michigan University)

LUNCH
12:30–1:45

ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 6
1:45–3:15

ARCH208
MacIntyre, Tradition, and the Philosophy of Science

“Aristotelians, Pragmatists, and a Third Way in the Philosophy of Science”
Raquel Sequeira (University of Notre Dame)

“Paradigms, Traditions, and the Underdetermination Thesis”
Stephen Napier (Villanova University)

“Toward a Computational Master Scientific Defense of the Thomistic Tradition”
Thomas Loughran (University of Notre Dame)

ARCH200
MacIntyre and Critical Theory

“Two Rival Accounts of Ascesis: MacIntyre and Foucault”
Ostiane Lazrak (Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

“MacIntyre’s Conception of the Aristotelian Tradition: Revival and Criticism”
Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina)

“Écrasez l'Infame: Tradition and the Proper Place of Authority between the Frankfurt School and Revolutionary Aristotelianism”
Jeffery L. Nicholas (Providence College)

ARCH108
MacIntyre, Anscombe, and Modern Moral Philosophy

“Public Goods and Common Good: Rival Liberalisms”
Alberto Díaz Rivero (Gabriela Mistral University)

“Diversity of Tradition Versus Critique of Liberalism”
Magdalena M. Baran (University of the National Education Commission, Krakow)

“MacIntyre’s Critique of Liberalism”
Joe Simpson (Independent Scholar)

COFFEE BREAK
3:15–3:45
ARCH First Floor Lobby

KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
3:45–5:00
ARCH208

“On Human Dignity: A Historical Super-commentary on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Lecture”
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)

CONFERENCE BANQUET
7:00–9:00

 

Saturday, July 12

BREAKFAST
8:00–8:45
ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 7
8:45–10:15

ARCH208
MacIntyre on Education and Culture

“By Narrative or Paralogy? MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Inquiry and the Justification of Academic Spaces”
Michael J. O’Neill (Providence College)

“Traditions, Rationality and ‘Second Nature’: Towards A Theory of Initiation and Learning”
Ryan Robert Thornton (University of Reading)

“Tradition, Forms of Culture, and Cultural Evolution”
Robert Elliot (Providence College)

ARCH200
MacIntyre, Tradition, and the Philosophy of Science

“Anscombe and MacIntyre on Human Nature, Ethics, and Truth”
David Herr (Xavier University)

“Human Nature as the Measure of Traditions of Moral Inquiry: The Place of Macintyre within the Neo-Aristotelian Metaethical Tradition”
Michael McInerny (Central European University)

“Of MacIntyre, Progress and Truth”
Steven Peña (University of Arizona)

ARCH108
MacIntyre, Augustine, and the Morality of Happiness

“Desire and Discernment: MacIntyre and Lonergan within the Aristotelian Tradition”
Mary Elliot (Boston College)

“Augustine in the Aftermath of Defeated Tradition”
Benjamin Rusch Gómez (University of Mary)

“Augustinian Eudaimonism”
David M. DiQuattro (Stetson University)

COFFEE BREAK
10:15–10:30
ARCH First Floor Lobby

COLLOQUIA 8
10:30–12:00

ARCH208
MacIntyre and Work

“MacIntyre’s Critique of Liberalism and the Crisis of Meaningful Work: Implications for True and False Callings”
Garrett W. Potts (University of South Florida)

“On Doing a Bad Job: Comparing Marxist, Managerial, and Neo-Aristotelian Accounts of Dehumanizing Labor”
Andrew Lynn (Villanova University)

ARCH200
MacIntyre and Hegel

“Development in the History of Philosophy”
Jan Eufinger (University of Hagen)

“Metaphysics and Tradition: Hegelian and MacIntyrean Accounts of Inquiry”
James Murdoch (Villanova University)

“The Mask of the Absolute: On MacIntyre and Hegel”
Patrick Burke Corry (Villanova University)

ARCH108
Tradition, Technology, and AI

“Tradition and Dialogue: AI, Technological Neutrality, and Pope Francis”
Alejo José Sison Galsim (University of Navarre) & Elisabeth Rain Kincaid (Baylor University)

“The Spirit of Sabbath: Jewish Perspectives on Technology”
Mathis Bitton (Harvard University)

“Endlessness: Digital Morality at the Dawning of the Age of the Machine”
Timothy J. A. O’Donnell (Ivy Tech Community College)

CLOSING REMARKS
12:00–12:30
ARCH First Floor Lobby