ABSTRACT
Alasdair Maclntyre is the McMahon/Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. His writings in ethics, social and political philosophy, sociology, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion are known to, and discussed by, an international audience. Many of his books are mentioned in the interview that follows; few readers of Cogito will have failed to read A Short History of Ethics, a book that has influenced a whole generation of students of moral philosophy. He has, remarkably, held appointments at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds, Oxford (Nuffield and University colleges), Essex, Princeton, Branders, Boston, Vanderbilt and Wellesley College before his present post at Notre Dame. His views stimulate and provoke; his ideas are widely discussed. We are pleased to welcome him to the columns of Cogito.
