Robin Attfield, MA (Oxon)

University of Oxford

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, PhD (Wales)

University of Wales

The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...

 has been Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University

Cardiff University

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 since 1992.

Robin Attfield read Greats (Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores

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) at Christ Church

Christ Church, Oxford

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 and theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford

Regent's Park College, Oxford

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.

He is a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy

Royal Institute of Philosophy

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; 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

UNESCO

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 working party on environmental ethics.

Publications

His publications include:

• Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century (Polity-Blackwell
  Blackwell Publishing
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  , 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-10: 92-3-104039-1; ISBN-13: 978-92-3-104039-9