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Alasdair MacIntyre's Degrees

Masters Philosophy University of Manchester
PhD Philosophy University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He is senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University.

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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. (1981) (3096)
Dependent rational animals : why human beings need the virtues (1999) (835)
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1996) (609)
Three Rival Versions Of Moral Enquiry (1990) (354)
A Short History of Ethics. (1967) (265)
A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century (1997) (254)
Social Structures and their Threats to Moral Agency (1999) (252)
Dependent Rational Animals (1999) (241)
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1989) (224)
FREEDOM AND REASON (1963) (217)
Three rival versions of moral enquiry : encyclopaedia, genealogy, and tradition : being Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1988 (1992) (216)
Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with Joseph Dunne (2002) (209)
Large-scale quarantine following biological terrorism in the United States: scientific examination, logistic and legal limits, and possible consequences. (2001) (176)
New Essays in Philosophical Theology. (1957) (161)
The Essential Contestability of Some Social Concepts (1973) (141)
Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility (1976) (141)
Toward a theory of medical fallibility. (1975) (123)
Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy (1971) (115)
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition (2007) (98)
The MacIntyre Reader (1998) (91)
Hegel: A collection of critical essays (1976) (88)
Is Understanding Religion Compatible with Believing (1964) (71)
The Nature of the Virtues (1981) (70)
Role of lysosomes in hepatic accumulation of chloroquine. (1988) (69)
Plain Persons and Moral Philosophy: Rules, Virtues and Goods (1992) (67)
Relativism, Power and Philosophy (1985) (64)
Hume on ‘is’ and ‘ought’ (1959) (64)
Sociological theory and philosophical analysis (1970) (61)
Ethics and Politics (2006) (59)
How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary: Ethics, Resistance, and Utopia (2008) (56)
Philosophy in History: The relationship of philosophy to its past (1984) (51)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays (2006) (50)
Revisions: Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy (1983) (50)
Marxism and Christianity (1953) (50)
Ideology, Social Science, and Revolution (1973) (47)
The Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis (1976) (46)
The Idea of a Social Science (1967) (42)
The Privatization of Good: An Inaugural Lecture (1990) (41)
THE TYRANNY OF CONCEPTS (1962) (40)
Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays (2006) (39)
The religious significance of atheism (1969) (39)
The Irrelevance of Ethics (2016) (38)
First principles, final ends, and contemporary philosophical issues : under the auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau (1990) (37)
Goods and Virtues (1985) (36)
Ethics and Politics: Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some modern Aristotelians (2006) (34)
Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (1982) (34)
What More Needs to Be Said? A Beginning, Although Only a Beginning, at Saying It (2008) (33)
Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists and Other Essays. Louis Althusser , Gregory Elliott , Ben Brewster , James H. Kavanagh , Thomas E. Lewis , Grahame Lock , Warren Montag (1991) (33)
What Morality Is Not (1957) (32)
Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue (2001) (31)
Why is the search for the foundations of ethics so frustrating? (1979) (30)
Pharmacokinetics and cellular uptake of 4-aminoquinoline antimalarials. (1988) (29)
How psychology makes itself true-or false. (1992) (29)
Sōphrosunē: How a Virtue Can Become Socially Disruptive (1988) (29)
Ethics and Politics: Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some Renaissance Aristotelians (2006) (28)
How Virtues Become Vices: Values, Medicine and Social Context (1975) (28)
Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 (2005) (27)
Ethics and Politics: Toleration and the goods of conflict (2006) (27)
Marxism : an interpretation (1955) (26)
How moral agents became ghosts or why the history of ethics diverged from that of the philosophy of mind (1982) (26)
How can we Learn what Veritatis Splendor has to Teach? (2017) (26)
Kinetics of chloroquine uptake into isolated rat hepatocytes. (1993) (25)
Individual and Social Morality in Japan and the United States: Rival Conceptions of the Self (1990) (22)
Human Character and Morality. (1989) (22)
Faith and Logic. (1959) (22)
The Magic in the Pronoun "My" (1983) (21)
Which God Ought We to Obey and Why (1986) (21)
Practical Rationalities As Forms of Social Structure (1987) (20)
Critical Remarks on The Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor (1994) (20)
HOW TO SEEM VIRTUOUS WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING SO (2005) (19)
The Tasks of Philosophy (2006) (18)
In vitro binding of chloroquine to rat muscle preparations. (1986) (18)
Alasdair Macintyre's Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings 1953-1974 (2009) (17)
Human Nature and Human Dependence:: What Might a Thomist Learn from Reading Løgstrup? (2007) (16)
Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (1984) (16)
The Claims of After Virtue (1984) (16)
Relativism, Power, and Philosophy (2013) (16)
On Being a Theistic Philosopher in a Secularized Culture (2010) (15)
Edith Stein : a philosophical prologue (2006) (15)
REFLECTIONS ON THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM (2019) (15)
Regulation: a substitute for morality. (1980) (14)
Can Medicine Dispense with a Theological Perspective on Human Nature (1981) (14)
What has ethics to learn from medical ethics? (1978) (14)
Causality and History (1976) (13)
Foundation of Ethics (1984) (12)
Moral Pluralism Without Moral Relativism (1999) (12)
Moral Arguments and Social Contexts (1983) (11)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Moral philosophy and contemporary social practice: what holds them apart? (2006) (11)
Ethics and Politics: Some Enlightenment projects reconsidered (2006) (11)
Precis of Whose Justice? Which Rationality ? (1991) (11)
Moral Theory: Understanding and Disagreement@@@The Viability of Moral Theory. (1995) (11)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Moral relativism, truth, and justification (2006) (11)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Epistemological crises, dramatic narrative, and the philosophy of science (2006) (10)
Confucian Ethics: Questions for Confucians: Reflections on the Essays in Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community (2004) (10)
Secularization and moral change : the Riddell memorial lectures thirty-sixth series delivered at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on 11, 12 and 13 November 1964 (1967) (10)
Seven Traits for the Future (1979) (10)
Ethics and Politics: Three perspectives on Marxism: 1953, 1968, 1995 (2006) (9)
Ethics and Politics: Aquinas and the extent of moral disagreement (2006) (9)
The Tasks of Philosophy: The ends of life, the ends of philosophical writing (2006) (9)
A Crisis in Moral Philosophy: Why Is the Search for the Foundations of Ethics So Frustrating? (1981) (9)
The Tradition of Scottish Philosophy (1991) (8)
Difficulties in Christian belief (1959) (8)
The Teaching of Ethics in the Social Sciences (1981) (8)
What Can Moral Philosophers Learn from the Study of the Brain?The Engine of Reason, the Seat of Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (1998) (8)
Philosophy recalled to its tasks: a Thomistic reading of Fides et Ratio (2006) (7)
Ethics and Politics: Truthfulness and lies: what can we learn from Kant? (2006) (7)
Symposium: The Idea of a Social Science (1967) (7)
On Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval by C. B. Macpherson (1976) (6)
What Right Does Ethics Have?: Public Philosophy in a Pluralistic Culture (1993) (6)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Hegel on faces and skulls (2006) (6)
Military Ethics: A Discipline in Crisis (2015) (6)
An Essay in Christian Philosophy (1956) (6)
Book Review: Exchange and Power in Social Life (1967) (5)
A Genealogy of Virtues (1983) (5)
Philosophical Education Against Contemporary Culture (2013) (5)
Comments on Frankfurt (1982) (5)
VI. After virtue and Marxism: A response to Wartofsky (1984) (5)
OUR EXPERIENCE OF GOD by (1960) (4)
Freedom and Immortality (1963) (4)
Imperatives, Reasons for Action, and Morals (1965) (4)
Designing our descendants. Seven traits for the future. (1979) (4)
Intelligibility, Goods, and Rules (1982) (4)
After Virtue. A Study in Moral Theory.@@@Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1989) (4)
Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction (1997) (4)
Sociological theory and philosophical analysis : a collection (1970) (3)
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty (1990) (3)
Reply to Roque (1991) (3)
After VirtueAfter Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1983) (3)
Education And Values (1987) (3)
The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (review) (2008) (2)
Ethics and Politics: Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and Yeats (2006) (2)
Reply to Dahl, Baier and Schneewind (1991) (2)
Imaginative universals and historical falsification: A rejoinder to professor Verene (1988) (2)
New Essays in Philosophical Theology Edited by Antony Flew [and] Alasdair Macintyre (1963) (2)
From Homer to Benjamin Franklin: the nature of the virtues. (1981) (2)
Ethics and Politics: Truthfulness and lies: what is the problem and what can we learn from Mill? (2006) (2)
Positivism, Sociology, and Practical Reasoning: Notes on Durkheim’s Suicide (1986) (2)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Truth as a good: a reflection on Fides et Ratio (2006) (2)
Metaphysical Beliefs: Three Essays (1970) (2)
Cause and Cure in Psychotherapy (1955) (2)
Anarchy,state and utopia . After virtue : A study in moral theory (1999) (1)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Contents (2006) (1)
My Station and Its Virtues (1994) (1)
Ethics and Politics: Moral dilemmas (2006) (1)
Hegel, a Collection of Critical EssaysHazlitt and the Spirit of the Age (1972) (1)
Metaphysical Beliefs Three Essays by Stephen Toulmin, Ronald W. Hepburn [and] Alasdair Macintyre. With a Pref. By Alasdair Macintyre (1957) (1)
Slavery and Human Progress. David Brion DavisBribes. John T. Noonan, Jr. (1986) (1)
Deals and Ideals: Two Concepts of Enlightenment (2001) (1)
Rejoinder to My Critics, Especially Solomon (1990) (1)
‘Commitment and Objectivity’ (1955) (1)
Colloquium 8: Yet Another Way to Read the Republic? (2008) (1)
Bernstein’s Distorting Mirrors: A Rejoinder (2017) (1)
Desires, goods, and ‘good’: some philosophical issues (2016) (1)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Preface (2006) (1)
RELIGION AND THE SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK (1960) (1)
Political Psychology.Jon Elster (1994) (1)
A Rejoinder to a Rejoinder (1981) (1)
Baruch Knei-Paz. The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky. New York: Clarendon Press, of Oxford University Press. 1978. Pp. xx, 629. $34.95 (1979) (1)
Narrative and Casuistry : A Response to John Arras (2009) (1)
Book Review: Robert Spaemann, Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something', trans. Oliver O'Donovan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). vii + 255 pp. £45 (hb), ISBN 978—0—19—928181—7 (2007) (1)
Index of Books (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (1972) (0)
Philosophical Analysis and Moral Psychology (1985) (0)
Alasdair MacIntyre :Recent Work (2005) (0)
For Faith and Freedom . By Leonard Hodgson D.D., (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1956. Pp. vii + 241. Price 21s.) (1959) (0)
The Wrong Questions to Ask about War (1980) (0)
Rationality and the Social Sciences: Contributions to the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences.S. I. Benn , G. W. Mortimore (1979) (0)
The Viability of Moral Theory (1995) (0)
Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge (2008) (0)
Difficulties in Christian Belief.Religious Belief (1962) (0)
Un suggeriment inquietant (2018) (0)
The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics by Romanus Cessario, O.P. (review) (2017) (0)
G. A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism?Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 83. $14.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis a Collection Edited with an Introd. By Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair Macintyre (1970) (0)
The Philosophical Point Of The History Of Ethics (2003) (0)
Criticizing the Others or Ourselves ? he MacIntyre-Winch Debate and the Idea of Social Criticism (2017) (0)
Kinesis : Interview with Alasdair MacIntyre (1996) (0)
HONG KONG INFLUENZA: THE COMING WINTER (1970) (0)
Modern Moral Philosophy (2003) (0)
Ethics and Politics: LEARNING FROM ARISTOTLE AND AQUINAS (2006) (0)
Reviews of Book: The Meaning of Existence (1953) (0)
Book Review:Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth John Finnis (1993) (0)
Algunas consideraciones en torno a la relación entre marxismo y cristianismo desde la propuesta de Alasdair Macintyre Some Considerations about the Relationship between Marxism and Christianity from (2014) (0)
Book Review: A Christian Economy. By W. G. Peck. S.P.C.K. 17s. 6d; The World and the Faith. By Maurice B. Reckitt. Faith Press. 10s. 6d (1954) (0)
Democracy Ancient, Modern and Postmodern (1992) (0)
Historicism without Relativism ? Alasdair MacIntyre ’ s Proposal for the Rescue of Moral Imperativeness (2014) (0)
9 – Industry and Energy: Moral Dimensions of the Tasks (1980) (0)
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: THE METHOD, THE THEORIES (1961) (0)
The Tasks of Philosophy: Colors, cultures, and practices (2006) (0)
Notices of Books (1961) (0)
1 MacIntyre , Dante and Modernity (2014) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Industry and energy: the moral dimensions (1979) (0)
Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Sentiment (2010) (0)
John Case:: An Example of Aristotelianism’s Self-Subversion? (1999) (0)
An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge (1991) (0)
Matching Intentions with Divergent Agendas: Interplay of the State, International Donors, and the Civil Voluntary Initiatives in Pakistan (2000) (0)
Three Perspectives on Marxism and Christianity (Translated by Andrius Bielskis) (2022) (0)
Book Review:Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka. Tetsuo Najita (1988) (0)
Predictability and Explanation in the Social Sciences (2017) (0)
Morality and modernity (2016) (0)
Book Review:Truth, Love and Immortality: An Introduction to McTaggart's Philosophy. Peter T. Geach (1981) (0)
Eric A. Havelock. The Greek Concept of Justice: From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1978. Pp. ix, 382.) 16.50 (1980) (0)
The Particularities of Political Conversations (2015) (0)
A Century of Modern Anglo-American Moral Philosophy (2019) (0)
Four – or more? – political Aristotles (2020) (0)
Democracy, Tradition, and the Local Community I. the Philosophical Roots of Modern Liberalism Iii. Macintyre's Critique of Contemporary Liberalism (2006) (0)
Confrontation: The Student Rebellion and the Universities.Daniel Bell , Irving KristolUniversity in Turmoil.Immanuel WallersteinHigher Education in Social Psychology.Sven Lundstedt (1970) (0)
The Meaning of Existence (1954) (0)
Alasdair MacIntyre ’ s Political Liberalism (2011) (0)
Shlomo Cohen Conversations on Ethics A Critical Study of Alex Voorhoeve , Conversations on Ethics (2009) (0)
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age.Hans Blumenberg , Robert M. Wallace (1985) (0)
Reformers, Utilitarians, Idealists (2003) (0)
Sin Returns To Sociology (1979) (0)
Christian Faith and Natural Science . Karl Heim. (S.C.M. Press. Pp. 256. 21s.) The Transformation of the Scientific World View . Karl Heim. (S.C.M. Press. Pp. 262. 21s.) (1954) (0)
One of the rewards of this book is that its meditation on community is greatly enriched by a wide reading of contemporary and classical philosophy. Thus Aris- totle’s examination of friendship informs Hagen’s analysis, as do the writings of (2008) (0)
To Live and Let Live (1996) (0)
The Prephilosophical History Of “good” And The Transition To Philosophy (2003) (0)
Chairman’s Opening Remarks (1972) (0)
On the (Im)possibility of Ethics: Logical Positivism and Deconstruction (2010) (0)
Booknotes (2011) (0)
Theory, practice, and their social contexts (2016) (0)
EXPLANATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (1964) (0)
Kai Nielsen., After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy (1994) (0)
Analogy in Metaphysics (1951) (0)
Sartre by Peter Caws (1983) (0)
The French Eighteenth-century Argument (2003) (0)
CHRISTIAN IDENTITY AS AN EMBODIED STORY : A PERSPECTIVE OF NARRATIVIST THEOLOGY (2016) (0)
Symposium: Cause and Cure in Psychotherapy (1955) (0)
Moral Rationality, Tradition and Aristotle: A Reply to O. O'Neill, R. Gaita et S.R.L. Clarke in Symposium: Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue. (1983) (0)
The Unconscious.The Concept of Motivation (1960) (0)
Hegel And Marx (2003) (0)
NeoAristotelianism developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification (2016) (0)
Book Review:The Idea of Political Theory: Reflections on the Self in Political Time and Place. Tracy B. Strong (1991) (0)
Revised 16 April 2008 Alasdair MacIntyre ’ s Critique of Contemporary Ethics : Can the Towering Figure of 20 th Century Ethics Have It Both Ways ? (2008) (0)
The Unconscious.@@@The Concept of Motivation. (1960) (0)
The Morals of Modernity.The Romantic Legacy (1997) (0)
Moral Education in Aristotle (1993) (0)
Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis. (1971) (0)
After virtue : a study in moral theory, [with new prologue] (2007) (0)
John Niemeyer Findlay 1903–1987 (1987) (0)
Interview - Alasdair MacIntyre (2008) (0)
Contemporary Ideas Narrative Competence : a neglected area in undergraduate curricula (2015) (0)

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