4th Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry; CFP deadline

Conference and call for papers:

International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry
4th Annual Conference

Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Friday July 29 – Sunday August 1, 2010

Proposal deadline: 1st of February 2010
ISME encourages paper proposals addressing the entire spectrum of ethical, social, political, historical and ideological problems related to the current economic crisis, drawing on or responding to the works of Alasdair MacIntyre.

Keynote Speakers

Bob Brecher
Center for Research and Development, University of Brighton
Zenonas Norkus
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vilnius
John O’Neill
School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Clemens K. Stepina
Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Sciences, University of Vienna

THEME:
Virtue and Economic Crises

Alasdair MacIntyre once argued that Karl Marx left philosophy and turned to political economy at a time when his philosophical enquiry was still incomplete.  From After Virtue to Dependent Rational Animals MacIntyre’s work has laid a solid philosophical foundation for building an understanding of the nature of human rationality, virtue and practice. This conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary research into the field of ethics, philosophy, political economy, social theory and theology in order to think through the moral and political aspects of the future of economic development. Its underlying presupposition rests in our belief that the orthodox neoclassical economic theory has to be theoretically challenged. A robust Aristotelian social theory and moral philosophy can contribute in rethinking these presuppositions and beliefs.

Possible Questions to Address Include:
* The importance of moral and intellectual virtues for equitable economic development.
* What are the moral and philosophical presuppositions behind the neoclassical economic thought and behind the existing socio-economic order of market capitalism?
* What can economic theory learn from moral philosophy and virtue ethics?
* What is the role of business ethics in times of economic crises?
* What does the current economic crisis tell us about the place of an ethics of social relationships in the economic system of advanced modernity?

Please submit proposals, including title and abstract, of no more than 350 words to: Dr. Andrius Bielskis, Department of Political Sciences, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, e-mail: andrius.bielskis(at)mruni.eu

For more information on theme please visit
http://www.macintyreanenquiry.org/Vilnius2010/Vilnius2010.html