ISME Publications

Books and journals originating in the Society’s conferences


Practical Rationality & Human Difference

Sante Maletta, Dario Mazzola, and Damiano Simoncelli (EDS.)
Mimesis International, 2023

Collecting papers from ISME’s 2021 conference, Practical Rationality & Human Difference: Perspectives On and Beyond Alasdair MacIntyre explores the role that MacIntyre’s thought can play in enabling dialogue between rival traditions and developing our understanding of human rationality and human difference.


Learning From MacIntyre

ron Beadle and Geoff Moore (EDS.)
Bloomsbury, 2020

In October, a Pickwick Publications released new collection of essays Learning From MacIntyre, edited by Ron Beadle and Geoff Moore. The collection begins with an intellectual biography of Alasdair MacIntyre followed by chapters which survey MacIntyre’s contributions to theology, Thomism, moral philosophy, classical philosophy, political philosophy, Marxism, the Frankfurt School, communication studies, business ethics, sociology, education, law, and therapeutic psychology.

All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to ISME to support our work.


Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism

Andrius Bielskis, Eleni Leontsini & Kelvin Knight (EDS.)
Bloomsbury, 2019

This volume bridges the gap between Aristotle's philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, bringing the resources of the Aristotelian tradition to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute.


Virtue and Economy

Andrius Bielskis & Kelvin Knight (EDS.)
Ashgate, 2015

A collection of essays reflecting on the relationship between ethics and political economy. Includes MacIntyre’s paper on “The Irrelevance of Ethics.”


Virtue and Politics

Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (EDS.)
University of Notre Dame press, 2011

A collection focusing on the political implications of MacIntyre’s thought. Includes MacIntyre’s paper “How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary.”


Revolutionary Aristotelianism

Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (EDS.)
Lucius & Lucius, 2008

ISME’s first book features essays first published in a special issue of Analyze & Kritik dedicated to MacIntyre’s thought.


MacIntyre, Empirics, and Organization

a special edition of the journal Philosophy of management, edited by ron beadle & geoff Moore

A special issue drawing on paper delivered at ISME’s first and second annual conferences.