What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Alasdair MacIntyre

List of Contributors

Contributors Gerard Casey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Adjunct Professor at the Maryvale Institute (Birmingham, UK), and Adjunct Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Alabama). A graduate of University College Cork, he received his MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of London and a Master of Laws (LLM) from University College Dublin. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America. He has been a member of University College Dublin’s Governing Authority. He serves on the editorial boards of Geopolitics, History and International Relations, Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, and Libertarian Papers and is a member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Association for Political Theory, the American Philosophical Association, and the Aristotelian Society. His latest book is Murray Rothbard (vol. 15 in the series Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers; Continuum, 2010). William Desmond is currently Professor of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University. He taught at Loyola in Maryland before going to Leuven, where he was Director of the International Program in Philosophy for thirteen years. He is the author of many books, including the trilogy Being and the Between (winner of the Prix Cardinal Mercier and the J. N. Findlay Award for best book in metaphysics, 1995–97; SUNY 487 Press, 1995), Ethics and the Between (SUNY Press, 2001), and God and the Between (Blackwell, 2008). Other books include Is There a Sabbath for Thought? Between Religion and Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2005), as well as Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Art and Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2003). He has also edited five books and published more than one hundred articles. He is past president of the Hegel Society of America, the Metaphysical Society of America, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. His most recent books are The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics after Dialectic (Catholic University of America Press, 2012) and The William Desmond Reader (SUNY Press, 2012). Joseph Dunne is Cregan Professor of Philosophy and Education at Dublin City University, having taught philosophy and philosophy of education for many years at St. Patrick’s College Dublin, where he was Head of Human Development. The author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997), he has also coedited Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy (IPA, 2000); Childhood and Its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (Liffey Press, 2002); and Education and Practice : Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning (Blackwell, 2004). Hans Fink studied at Aarhus University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he received his DPhil in 1974. Since then he has been teaching at Aarhus University and has been Professor and Director of its Centre for Cultural Research. His publications in English include Social Philosophy (Methuen, 1981). Together with Alasdair MacIntyre he edited a new American edition of K. E.Løgstrup, The Ethical Demand (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University . He works in the philosophy of mind and moral psychology. He has had the excellent fortune of intersecting with Alasdair MacIntyre first as a graduate student and then as a colleague at Boston University, Wellesley College, and Duke University. Raymond Geuss was born in December 1946 in Evansville, Indiana. He began full-time university teaching at Heidelberg in 1971 and has taught 488 Contributors at Cambridge since 1993. In June 2000 he was naturalized as a citizen of the United Kingdom. He is the author of The Idea of a Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Morality, Culture, and History (Cambridge University Press, 1999), History and Illusion in Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton University Press, 2001), Politik und Glück (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004), Outside Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2005), Philosophy and Real Politics (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Politics and the Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2010). His A World Without Why will appear with Princeton University Press in 2013. John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews. His many publications include Atheism and Theism (with J. J.C. Smart; Oxford University Press, 1996), An Intelligent Person’s Guide...