Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre
MacIntyre in 2009
Born	Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929-01-12) 12 January 1929 (age 95) Glasgow, Scotland
Alma mater	Queen Mary College, London University of Manchester University of Oxford
Notable work	After Virtue (1981)
Spouses	Ann Peri ​ ​ (m. 1953; div. 1963)​ Susan Margery Willans ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1977)​ Lynn Sumida Joy ​ (m. 1977)​
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy Aristotelianism Aretaic turn Thomism
Institutions	Brandeis University Boston University Wellesley College Vanderbilt University University of Notre Dame Duke University
Academic advisors	Dorothy Emmet
Main interests	Ethics metaethics history of ethics social philosophy   political philosophy
Notable ideas	Revival of virtue ethics internal and external goods rationality of traditions predecessor culture

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (/ˈæləstər ˈmækɪnˌtaɪər/; born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology.^[1] MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century.^[2] He is senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) 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.^[3] During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University.

MacIntyre was born on 12 January 1929 in Glasgow, to Eneas and Greta (Chalmers) MacIntyre. He was educated at Queen Mary College, London, and has a Master of Arts degree from the University of Manchester and from the University of Oxford. He began his teaching career in 1951 at Manchester. He married Ann Peri, with whom he had two daughters, Jean and Toni.^[4] 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:

• Professor of History of Ideas, Brandeis University (1969 or 1970),
• Dean of the College of Arts and professor of philosophy, Boston U