MacIntyre 90 – Practice, Tradition, Natural Law

Program:

VENUE:
National University of Public Service
Budapest, Ludovika square 2.
main building, 1st floor, room Hunyadi

JUNE 27, THURSDAY

15:00 – 15:15 OPENING REMARKS
KEYNOTE TALK I.
Chair: Tamás Paár
15:15 – 16:05 Ron Beadle (Northumbria University, Newcastle): What Should We Learn from Misappropriations of MacIntyre?
16:05 – 16:35 DISCUSSION
16:35 –16:55 COFFEE BREAK

KEYNOTE TALK II.
Chair: Ferenc Hörcher
16:55 – 17:45 Arthur Madigan, S.J. (Boston College, MA): Alasdair MacIntyre's Reading of Aquinas's Natural Law
17:45 – 18:15 DISCUSSION

JUNE 28, FRIDAY

SESSION I.
Chair: Zoltán Balázs
10:00 – 10:20 Elif Nur Balci (Abant University, Turkey): Morality and God: Reconceiving MacIntyre's Position
10:20 – 10:40 Gábor Kendeffy (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): An Augustinan Antecedent of MacIntyre’s Concept of Practice
10:40 – 11:00 Dániel Golden (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): MacIntyre, Rorty, and Gadamer on the Role of Tradition in Philosophy
11:00 – 11:20 Caleb Bernacchio (IESE Business School, Barcelona): MacIntyre and/or Brandom? Hegel with Aquinas?
11:20 – 12:00 DISCUSSION
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH BREAK

SESSION II.
Chair: Péter Lautner
13:00 – 13:20 Brigitta Balogh (Partium Christian University, ,Oradea): Practice, Meaning and Non-discursive Knowledge. On Alasdair MacIntyre’s Concept of Rationality
13:20 – 13:40 Dario Mazzola (University of Bergamo / Theological Institute Laurentianum, Milan): MacIntyre’s Conception of Natural Law: Defining Aspects and Critical Perspectives
13:40 – 14:00 Brendan Hogan (New York University): Imagination and the Ends of Practical Reason
14:00 – 14:20 Miryam Morales Benito (University of Navarra): MacIntyre and Virtue: The More Vichianism, the Less Virtue-Ethicism
14:20 – 15:00 DISCUSSION
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION III.
Chair: Csaba Olay
15:30 – 15:50 Ferenc Hörcher (National University of Public Service / Hungarian Academy of Sciences): MacIntyre on the Practical Knowledge of Local Communities. The Example of the Fishing Village
15:50 – 16:10 Kamil Aksiuto (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin): Alasdair MacIntyre as a Critic of the Modern State
16:10 – 16:30 Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): Countering Conservatives and Learning from Liberals - or Vice Versa? MacIntyre's Mill against Deneen's Burke
16:30 – 16:50 Peter Wicks (Elm Institute, CT): What Is Emotivist Culture?
16:50 – 17:30 DISCUSSION

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS:
National University of Public Service
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

ORGANIZERS:
Ferenc Hörcher (National University of Public Service, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Zoltán Turgonyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)