Required textbooks:

You will have to have paper copies of these books, which you will need to bring to class.

• Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981); paperback; ISBN 0268035040. (Any edition is fine.)
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990); paperback; ISBN 0268018774.
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988); paperback; ISBN 0268019444. (Duckworth edition is also fine.)
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals (Chicago: Open Court, 2001); paperback; ISBN 081269452X.
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016); paperback; ISBN 1316629600.
• Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); paperback; ISBN 0521670616.
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); paperback; ISBN 0521670624.

Optional textbook:

• Alasdair MacIntyre, Against the Self-Images of the Age (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971); paperback; ISBN 0268005877. (Duckworth edition is also fine.)

Most of these have been in print for a while, and you can find inexpensive used copies online.

Additional readings will be made available through the Philosophy Department reserve file (behind the desk in the reception area of the department office), and online.

Reading Assignments:

1. Aug. 18: Introduction.

   Optional prereading: TBA.

   (Optional reading really is optional.)