Cfp: "MacIntyre at 80: What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?," School of Philosophy, UC Dublin, March 6-8, 2009.

Update: Terry Eagleton will give the UCD Philosophy Society's inaugural lecture on Wed 4 March at 7 pm, entitled "The Irish Sublime". The following papers will be presented:

• Alasdair MacIntyre, “On Having Survived the Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century”
• Kelvin Knight, “MacIntyre’s Revisionary Aristotelianism”
• Owen Flanagan, “What do the Human Sciences have to do with Ethics?”
• Raymond Geuss, “Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century”
• Richard Kearney: “Forgiveness: Possible or Impossible? - Arendt, Derrida, Ricoeur, Jankelevitch”
• Stephen Mulhall, “Naturalism, Nihilism and Perfectionism: Stevenson, Williams and Nietzche in 20th Century Moral Philosophy”
• Jonathan Rée, “The Fetishism of Morality”
• James McEvoy, “Parallel projects: Alasdair MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics, Thomistic Moral Theology (Servais Pinckaers OP) and thirteenth-century Pastoral Theology (Leonard Boyle OP)”
• Adam Chmielewski, TBA
• Arthur Madigan, “Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomistic Aristotelianism, and Revolutionary Aristotelianism.”
• David Solomon, “MacIntyre and the Applied Ethics Revolution”
• Joseph Dunne, "Strong Demands: What Sources?"
• Michael Sherwin, “Rediscovering Aquinas’ Augustianism: An interpretation of Some twentieth century Dominican Theologians.”
• Steven Long, “The Perfect Storm: On the Loss of Natural Teleology as a Normative Theonomic Principle in 20th Century Moral Philosophy”
• Elijah Milgram, “Relativism, Coherence, and the Problems of Philosophy”
• Hans Fink, “Against the Self Images of the Age. MacIntyre and Løgstrup”

Original Post (November 30, 2008): Alasdair MacIntyre will deliver an autobiographical paper entitled "On Having Survived the Moral Philosophies of the Twentieth Century." Speakers include: Raymond Geuss, Richard Kearney, Elijah Milgram, Stephen Mulhall, Jonathan Rée. Panel Sessions:

• Philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre: Adam Chmielewski, Joseph Dunne, Owen Flanagan, Kelvin Knight, Arthur Madigan, David Solomon;
• Aquinas' Moral Philosophy: Steven Long, James McEvoy, Michael Sherwin .

Visit the conference page here: http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/macintyre/index.html.