Robin Attfield

Robin Attfield, MA (Oxon), PhD (Wales) has been Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University^[1] since 1992.

Robin Attfield read Greats (Literae Humaniores) at Christ Church and theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford.

He is a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; a co-opted member of the Executive Committee of the British Philosophical Association; Chair of the Cardiff Branch of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and a member of the Unesco working party on environmental ethics.

Publications

His publications include:

• Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century (Polity-Blackwell, 2003)
• Creation, Evolution and Meaning (Ashgate, 2006).
• ‘Environmental Ethics and Global Sustainability’, in Henk A.M.J. ten Have (ed.), Environmental Ethics and International Policy, Paris: UNESCO, 2006, 69-87, ISBN 92-3-104039-1; ISBN 978-92-3-104039-9

^[2] BOOKS AUTHORED OR EDITED BY ROBIN ATTFIELD

1A. Robin Attfield (1978) God and The Secular: A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Reasoning from Bacon to Kant, Cardiff: University College Cardiff Press, pp. 231, ISBN 9780901426925

1B. Robin Attfield, God and The Secular: A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Reasoning from Bacon to Kant (2nd edn.), Aldershot: Gregg Revivals and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1993, pp. 231, ISBN 0-7512-0243-6.

2A. Robin Attfield, The Ethics of Environmental Concern, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1983, pp. xi + 220, ISBN 0-631-13137-X, and New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-05798-9 (hb), 0-231-05799-7 (pb).

2B. Robin Attfield, The Ethics of Environmental Concern (2nd edn.), Athens, GA and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991, pp. xxiii + 249, ISBN 0-8203-1349-1 (hb), 0-8203-1344-0 (pb)

2C. Robin Attfield, The Ethics of Environmental Concern, (2nd. edn.), translated into Korean by Seunghoe Koo, Seoul: Earth Love Publications, 1997, pp. 377, ISBN 89-85277-21-9.

3. Robin Attfield, A Theory of Value and Obligation, London, Sydney, New York: Croom Helm, 1987, pp. x + 262, ISBN 0-7099-0572-6.

4A. Robin Attfield and Katharine Dell (eds.), Values, Conflict and the Environment (Report of the environmental ethics interdisciplinary Working Party of the Ian Ramsey Centre, St. Cross College, Oxford), Oxford: Ian Ramsey Centre and Cardiff Centre for Applied Ethics, 1989, pp. 100, ISBN 1-873453-00-0.

4B. Robin Attfield and Katharine Dell (eds.), Values, Conflict and the Environment (Report of the environmental ethics interdisciplinary Working Party of the Ian Ramsey Centre, St. Cross College, Oxford), 2nd edn., Aldershot: Avebury, and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1996, pp. xii + 174; ISBN 1-85972-491-4.

5. Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins (eds.), International Justice and the Third World: Essays in the Philosophy of Development, London and New York: Routledge, 1992, pp. ix + 207, ISBN 0-415-06924-6 (hb); 0-415-06925-4 (pb).

6. Robin Attfield, Environmental Philosophy: Principles and Prospects, Aldershot: Avebury and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1994(i), pp.viii + 262; ISBN 1-85628-566-9.

7. Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey (eds.), Philosophy and the Natural Environment (also published as Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 36), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994(ii), pp. vi + 250, ISBN 0-521-46903-1.

8. Robin Attfield, Value, Obligation and Meta-Ethics, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995, pp. xv + 319; ISBN 90-5183-857-3 (hb); 90-5183-862-X (pb).

9. Robin Attfield, The Ethics of the Global Environment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999, in the World Ethics Series edited by Nigel Dower, pp. viii + 232, ISBN 07486-0895-8; also West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-55753-189-7.

10. Robin Attfield, Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, Polity Press, Cambridge, and Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2003, pp. xii + 232. ISBN 0-7456-2737-4 (hb); 0-7456-2738-2 (pb).

11. Robin Attfield, Creation, Evolution and Meaning, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006, pp. ix + 234. ISBN 0-7546-0474-8 and 0-7546-0475-6. Also an e-book.

12. Robin Attfield (ed.), The Ethics of the Environment, Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008, pp. xxx + 620, ISBN, 978-0-7546-2786-9.

13. Robin Attfield, Ethics: An Overview, London and New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2012, pp. xii + 262. ISBN 978-1-4411-4403-4 (hb); 978-1-4411-8205-0 (pb). Also an e-book.

References

1. "Professor Robin Attfield". Retrieved 4 March 2011.
2. Scharper, Stephen B. (1 October 1998). Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 28–31. ISBN 978-0-8264-1135-8. Retrieved 8 August 2010.