Going Back to the Roots: Plain Persons asking Questions about the Human Good and the Nature of Things, School of Philosophy, UC Dublin, March 9, 2009.

The third Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry will take place in Dublin to coincide with a major international conference to mark the 80th birthday of Alasdair MacIntyre (See http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/macintyre/index.html). We invite papers that engage critically with themes in MacIntyre’s work. Proposals for papers engaging with other thinkers in MacIntyre’s tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Karl Marx, and Edith Stein) are also welcome. The registration fee is 25 euros. Applicants are invited to submit a paper proposal in Word or PDF format, including paper title and an abstract of between 150 and 250 words to: s.r.macgiollarnath@reading.ac.uk The deadline for proposing a paper is 1st January, 2009. Confirmation with respect to acceptance will be delivered by 12th January. Written papers in Word or PDF format must be submitted via email only, no later than 15th February. Papers will be forwarded to all registered participants. The presentation of each paper is limited to 20 minutes, and will be followed by a discussion based on the assumption that participants have read the papers. Visit the conference homepage here: http://macintyreanenquiry.org/2009cfp.htm.