MacIntyre in the Conflicts of Modernity
11th June: 8:00 am - 12th June: 8:00 pm BST
The Aquinas Institute are co-sponsoring a conference with the Canterbury Institute, and The Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, on 11 and 12 June at Campion Hall, Christ Church, and Pusey House.
The death of Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (12 January 1929 – 21 May 2025) provides all who are indebted to his work with an opportunity to consider how he has made them rethink those areas of philosophy to which he made outstanding contributions. This conference considers how we ought to commemorate the work that MacIntyre began, whether that be by developing and deepening it, by refining and correcting what he overlooked or dismissed, or by sharply disagreeing with the positions he held. It will consider how his work provokes us to redefine our positions in light of the arguments he made. As he wrote in his last book: ‘In philosophy it is only rarely that anyone or any argument has the last word. Debate almost always continues, and this is notably so with the topics and issues with which I am concerned in this book’ – MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity (2016).
Speakers include: Professor Jason Blakely, Pepperdine; Dr Dominic Burbidge, Regent’s Park; Professor David Cloutier, Notre Dame; Professor John Cottingham, Reading; Dr Daniel De Haan, Blackfriars & Campion; Professor Anne Jeffrey, Baylor; Professor Christopher Kaczor, Loyola; Andreas Masvie, Christ Church; Professor Melissa Moschella, Notre Dame; Professor Stephen Mulhall, New College; Professor Mark C. Murphy, Georgetown; Professor Tracey Rowland, Notre Dame, Australia.
To register and for more information, please follow the link
Schedule
Thursday 11 June
Morning Session
Lecture Room, Campion Hall
5 Brewer St, Oxford, OX1 1QS
8:30 Tea & Coffee
8:45 Introduction
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1. Chair: Daniel De Haan
9:00-9:45 Dominic Burbidge (Regent’s Park, Oxford University), MacIntyre Applied to AI Ethics
9:45-10:30 Christopher Kaczor (Loyola Marymount University), Justice, Misericordia, and the Virtues of Parenthood: MacIntyre’s Virtue Ethics Approach to Abortion
10:30-11:00 Tea & Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 2. Chair: Mehmet Ciftci
11:00-11:45 Mark Murphy (Georgetown University),MacIntyre on Moral Obligation and Directed Duty
11:45-12:30 Melissa Moschella (University of Notre Dame),The New Natural Law Theory and Alasdair MacIntyre’s Moral Philosophy: A Rapprochement
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break                Â
Afternoon Session
Chapter House, Christ Church
St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1 1DP
13:45-14:00 Tea & Coffee
14:00-15:15 Session 3. Chair: Andreas Masvie
14:00-15:15 John Cottingham (University of Reading; St John’s Oxford University),Teleology and Transcendence in MacIntyre’s Ethical Outlook. Respondent: Daniel De Haan
Late Afternoon Public Lecture
Pusey House
St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LZ
15:30-16:00 Tea & Coffee in Hood Room, Pusey House
16:00-17:15 Public Lecture in the Chapel. Chair: Mehmet Ciftci
Tracey Rowland (University of Notre Dame Australia), MacIntyrean Insights for the Leonine Era
17:30 Evensong, Pusey House.
Guest preacher: The Rev’d Dr Nicholas Austin SJ
Friday, June 12
Morning Session
Chapter House, Christ Church
St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1 1DP
9:30-9:45 Tea & Coffee
9:45-11:15 Session 1. Chair: Dominic Burbidge
9:45-10:30 David Cloutier (University of Notre Dame), Building on MacIntyre’s Legacy: Confronting ‘Morality’, Appreciating Economy, and Expanding Biography
10:30-11:15 Anne Jeffrey (Baylor University),Virtues Fit for Being
11:15-11:45 Tea & Coffee
12:00 – 12:45 Session 2. Chair: Mehmet Ciftci
12:00 – 12:45 Daniel De Haan (Blackfriars & Campion Hall, Oxford University),Why do humans need participatory politics to flourish? Defending MacIntyre’s Neo-Aristotelian Political Animals
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:00 Tea & Coffee
Afternoon Session
Chapter House, Christ Church
St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1 1DP
Session 3. Chair: Dominic Burbidge
14:00 – 15:15 Andreas E. Masvie (Christ Church, Oxford University), MacIntyre, Political Philosophy, and the Postliberals. Respondent: Stephen Mulhall (New College, Oxford University)
Late Afternoon Public Lecture
Pusey House
St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LZ
15:30-16:00 Tea & Coffee in Hood Room, Pusey House
16:00-17:15 Public Lecture in the Chapel. Chair: Mehmet Ciftci
Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University), Last of the Utopians: Alasdair MacIntyre as Radical Humanist
17:30Â Evensong, Pusey House.
Guest preacher: The Rev’d Dr Richard Conrad OP
Additional Information
Oraganizers
- Dr Dominic Burbidge is the Director of the Canterbury Institute, a permanent Lecturer in Politics in Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Associate of the Department of Politics & International Relations.
- Dr Mehmet Ciftci is the Academic Programme Coordinator at the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, Oxford.
- Dr Daniel De Haan is the Director of the Aquinas Institute, the Frederick Copleston Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology in the Catholic Tradition at Blackfriars and Campion Hall, Oxford University.
- Mr Andreas Masvie recently submitted his DPhil thesis in the Faculty of Theology at Oxford in which he examines and develops MacIntyre’s account of civic friendship. He is the incoming John and Daria Barry Junior Research Fellow in Civic Virtue at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
All attendees are warmly invited to the ecumenical services of Evensong in the Pusey House Chapel at the advertised times. There are also Roman Catholic Masses available nearby at Blackfriars Priory and the Oratory at 7:30 and 18:00.
For any questions or queries, please email either andreas.masvie@chch.ox.ac.uk or mehmet.ciftci@stx.ox.ac.uk
Venue: Campion Hall -
Brewer Street
Oxford,
OX1 1QS
United Kingdom
Contact:
Aquinas Institute
aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk