# Event Details - **Event Name**: MacAllister on MacIntyre - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: This session brings together people whose work has been influenced by James MacAllister’s engagement with the writing of Alasdair MacIntyre.About this EventMacAllister on MacIntyre‘The hopeful person lives with full awareness of the difficulties that lie before them. However, they arenot crushed by the weight of these difficulties.’ (MacAllister, 2019, p438)This session brings together three people - Professor Mark Smith, Professor Laura Colucci-Gray and Dr Ian Normile - whose own work has been influenced by James MacAllister’s engagement with the writing of Alasdair MacIntyre. All three knew James the person as well as knowing his writing; working alongside him as colleague, co-author or doctoral student (or a combination of all three). Here they build on James’ writing and thinking, drawing on ideas of ‘hope’, ‘education as it could be’ and what both MacAllister and MacIntyre must teach us about how to do Philosophy of Education well. Attendees wishing to familiarise themselves with James’ writing on MacIntyre may like to read the following in advance:MacAllister, J. (2019) Utopianism of the Present: MacIntyre on Education and the Virtue of Hope, International Critical Thought, 9(3), pp. 436-446.MacAllister, J. (2016) MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelian Philosophy and his Idea of an Educated Public Revisited, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 50(4), pp. 224-237.Professor Mark Smith, Professor of Social Work, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Dundee: ‘Practices of Hope’Professor Laura Colucci-Gray, Personal Chair in Science and Sustainability Education, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh: ‘Seeing with the eyes of the skin: the quest of aesthetic perception in science education’Dr Ian Normile, Senior Lecturer Anglia Ruskin University: ‘MacAllister on MacIntyre: Exemplars in the Philosophy of Education’.Chair: Professor Jonathan Hearn, Professor of Political and Historical Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of EdinburghTalk DetailsVenue: Thomson’s Land, Godfrey Thomson HallLecture: 16:00-17:30Drinks Reception: 17:30-18:30Please note that this lecture will be recorded.Privacy StatementWe will use your personal data to allow us to process your registration and communicate with you about the event. 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