Sir Alasdair Breckenridge

Alasdair Macintyre’s Aristotelian Business Ethics: A Critique

This paper begins by summarizing and distilling MacIntyre’s sweeping critique of modern busi­ ness. It identifies the crux of MacIntyre’s critique as centering on the fundamental Aristotelian concepts of internal goods and practices. MacIntyre essentially follows Aristotle in arguing that by privileging external goods over internal goods, business activity – and certainly modern capitalistic bu...

Alasdair Cochrane Environmental ethics Online encyclopedia entry

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Yes Sir, no Sir, not much difference Sir.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether making the sender's knighthood explicit in a series of letters would have any detectable effect on the response. DESIGN A random sequence was generated by flipping a coin to determine whether a letter would have 'Sir Iain Chalmers' or 'Iain Chalmers' typed under the signature. This sequence was prepared independently of the preparation of an alphabetic list of the ...

AIPS Workshop on Model - Theoretic Approaches to Planning Breckenridge

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Enquiry in Polanyian Perspective