Piotr Machura

Degree (2002) and PhD in Philosophy (2006, with Honors) from University of Silesia in Katowice. Currently Piotr teaches Ethics at University of Silesia as Assistant Professor. He was coordinator of international research project on “Central-European Ethics or Local Traditions: Freedom, Responsibility, Equality, Justice” and Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (London Metropolitan University) in 2011.

Research topics: 

Contemporary Aristotelianism (Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum), virtue ethics, moral ideals, philosophy of education, social identity, integration and transformation processes, history of ideas

Location: 

Institute of Philosophy

Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Silesia

Bankowa 11

40-007 Katowice

Poland

Email: 
piotr.machura@us.edu.pl
Papers: 

- MacIntyre a Gadamer (MacIntyre and Gadamer), “Studia Philosophica Vratislaviensia” 2007, vol. II, fasc. 2

- MacIntyre’s Radical Intellectualism: Philosopher as a Moral Ideal, in: Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia, eds. K. Knight, P. Blackledge, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, 2008, (reprint: „Analyse und Kritik” 1/2008)

- Etyka cnót a podmiotowość polityczna (Virtue Ethics and Political Agency), in: Współczesna etyka cnót: możliwości i ograniczenia, ed. N. Szutta, Warszawa: WN Semper, 2010,

- Dobro wspólne, tożsamość i cnoty (Common good, identity and the virtues), in: Dobro wspólne, ed. D. Probucka, Kraków: Pedagogical University Press, 2010,

 - Central-European Ethos: Equality, Social Emergence and Claims to Justice, in: Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Equality, Justice, eds. J. Jurova, M. Jozek, A. Kiepas, P. Machura, Albert, Boskovice, 2010,

- Central-European Ethos: Freedom, Responsibility and Social Imaginaries, In: Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Freedom, Responsibility, eds. M. Jozek, J. Jurova, A. Kiepas, P. Machura, Boskovice: Albert 2011