Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre in 2009
Born	(1929-01-12) 12 January 1929 (age 88) Glasgow, Scotland
Alma mater	Queen Mary College, London University of Manchester
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy Aretaic turn Thomism
Main interests	Ethics, metaethics, history of ethics, political philosophy
Notable ideas	Revival of virtue ethics, internal and external goods
Influences Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Hegel, R. G. Collingwood, Imre Lakatos, Thomas Kuhn, John Henry Newman, Edith Stein
Influenced Postliberal theology, Stanley Hauerwas, Radical Orthodoxy, Rod Dreher

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but also known for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is widely recognised as one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century.

MacIntyre was born on 12 January 1929 in Glasgow, to John and Emily (Chalmers) MacIntyre. He was educated at Queen Mary, University of London, and has a Master of Arts from the University of Manchester and from the University of Oxford. He began his teaching career in 1951 at Manchester University. He taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Essex and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, before moving to the US in around 1969. MacIntyre has been something of an intellectual nomad, having taught at many universities in the US. He has held the following positions:

He has also been a visiting professor at Princeton University, and is a former president of the American Philosophical Association. In 2010, he was awarded the Aquinas Medal by the American Catholic Philosophical Association.