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Books

Robin Attfield, God and The Secular: A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Reasoning from Bacon to Kant, Cardiff: University College Cardiff Press, 1978, pp. 231, ISBN 90142692-X

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.

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).

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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, pp. vi + 250, ISBN 0-521-46903-1.

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).

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.

Robin Attfield, Etika Lingkungan Global, trans. (into Bahasa Indonesia) Saut Pasaribu, Yogyakarta: Kreasi Wacana, 2010. ISBN 978-602-8001-48-9.

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).

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.

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

Robin Attfield, Ethics: An Overview, London and New York: Continuum, 2012

Selected Articles and Chapters

‘The God of Religion and the God of Philosophy’, in Religious Studies, 9, March 1973, 1-9

‘The Irreducibility of “Meaning”’ (written jointly with Mr. Michael Durrant), in Noûs, VII.3, September 1973, 282-9

‘On Being Human’ in Inquiry, 17, 1974, 175-92

‘Supererogation and Double Standards’, Mind, LXXXVIII, 1979, 481-99

‘The Good of Trees’, Journal of Value Inquiry, 15, 1981, 35-54

‘Christian Attitudes to Nature’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 44, 1983, 369-86

‘Methods of Ecological Ethics’, Metaphilosophy, 14, 3&4, 1983, 195-208

‘Balthasar Bekker and the Decline of the Witch-Craze: The Old Demonology and the New Philosophy’, Annals of Science, 42, 1985, 383-395

‘The Global Distribution of Health Care Resources’ Journal of  Medical  Ethics, 16/2, September 1990, 153-156

‘Claims, Interests and Environmental Concern’, in C.C.W. Taylor (ed.), Ethics and  the  Environment, Proceedings of Conference held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 20-21 September 1991, Corpus Christi College: Oxford, 1992

‘Clarke, Independence and Necessity’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1.2, 1993, 67-82

‘Intrinsic Value and Transgenic Animals’, in Andrew Johnson and Alan Holland (eds.),  Animal Biotechnology and Ethics, London: Chapman and Hall, 1998, 172-189

‘Discounting, Jamieson’s Trilemma and Representing the Future’, in T. Hayward and J. O’Neill (eds.), Justice, Property and the Environment:  Social and Legal Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, 85-96

‘Evolution, Theodicy and Value’ (presented at the Science and Religion Forum Conference, Hoddesdon, 1996), The Heythrop Journal, 41.3, July 2000, 281-296

‘Meaningful Work and Full Employment’, Reason in Practice, 1.1, 2001, 41-48

‘Biocentric Consequentialism, Pluralism and ‘the Minimax Implication’: A Reply to Alan Carter’, Utilitas, 15.1 (March 2003), 76-91

‘Rousseau, Clarke, Butler and Deism’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 12.3, 2004, 429-443

'Is the Concept of Nature Dispensable?', in Stephen Voss, Berna Kylync and Gurol Irzyk (eds), Logic and Philosophy of Science, vol. 5 of Proceedings  of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy, based on the  2003 World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul), Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007, 59-63

‘Cudworth, Prior and Passmore on the Autonomy of Ethics’, in Sarah Hutton and Douglas Hedley (eds), Platonism at the Origins of Modernity, published in the series International Archives in the History of Ideas, Dordrecht: Springer, 2008, 147-158

‘Mediated Responsibilities, Global Warming and the Scope of Ethics’, Journal of Social Philosophy, 40.2, 2009, 225-236

‘Social History, Religion and Technology: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into White’s ‘Roots’’, Environmental Ethics, 31.1, 2009, 31-50

‘Philosophy on Poetry, Philosophy in Poetry’, in Jinfen Yan and David Shrader (eds), Creating a Global Dialogue on Value Inquiry, Papers from the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Lewiston, NY and Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009, 417-432

‘Darwin’s Doubt, Non-deterministic Darwinism and the Cognitive Science of Religion’, in Philosophy, 85.4, 2010, 465-483

‘Cultural Evolution, Sperber, Memes and Religion’, Philosophical Inquiry (Thessaloniki), 35, 3-4, Summer-Fall 2011, 36-55

Please click here for a comprehensive list of articles and chapters in academic journals and books.

Reviews

Review of D.D. Raphael (ed.), British Moralists  1650-1800,  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969, in The Church Quarterly, April 1970, p.363 (book notes section: unsigned).

Review of Robert A. Evans (ed.),  The   Future  of Philosophical  Theology,
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1971, in Religious Studies, 9.1, March 1973, 99-101.

Review of William A. Christian, Oppositions of Religious Doctrines, Macmillan, 1972, in Trivium, 8, 1973, 145-47.

Further review of Oppositions of Religious Doctrines (see 3 above), in Religious  Studies, 10.1, March 1974, 122-24.

Review of Renford Bambrough, Moral  Scepticism and  Moral Knowledge, London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, in Philosophical Quarterly, 31, 1981, 177-78.

Review of J. O’Higgins (ed.), Determinism and Freewill, Anthony Collins, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976, in Studia Leibnitiana,12.2, 1980, 293-96.

Review of Joseph Margolis, Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume LVII, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA;  London, England: Reidel, 1978, in Studia  Leibnitiana, 12.2,  1980, 293-96.

Review of Steven T. Davis (ed.), Encountering Evil. Live Options in Theodicv,
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1981, in Insight, A Journal for Church and Community, 1, 1982, 38-40.

Review of Keith Ward, Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don Cupitt, London, SPCK, 1982, in New Blackfriars, 64, No. 755, 1983, 237-39.

Review of Stephen T. Davis, Logic and the Nature of God, London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1983, in New Blackfriars, 65, No. 764, 1984, 90-92.

Review of R.G. Frey, Rights, Killing and Suffering, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1983, in The Friend, 142.11, March 16, 1984, 335-36.

Review of Nigel Dower, World Poverty: Challenge and Response, York: Ebor Press,1983, in Journal  of  Applied Philosophy 1.2, 1984-5, 322-23; ISSN 0264-3758.

Review of Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World, New York:        Pantheon Books (and London: Allen Lane), 1983, in Isis (Official Journal of the History of Science Society),75:3:278, 1984, 588-89.

Review of Grace M. Jantzen, God’s  World.  God’s  Body,  London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1984, in New Blackfriars, 65, No. 771, 1984, 395-96.

Review of William Tucker, Progress and Privilege.  America in  the Age of Environmentalism, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982, in Environmental  Ethics, 7.2, 1985, 181-83.

Review of Keith W. Clements, A  Patriotism for Today: Dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bristol Baptist College, 1984, in The Modern Churchman, 27.1, 1985, 67-68.

Review of J. Kellenberger, The Cognitivity of Religion: Three Perspectives, Basingstoke and London; Macmillan, 1985, in New Blackfriars, 67, No. 792, 1986, 296-98.

Review of Roger Trigg, Understanding Social Science. A Phi1osophical Introduction to the Social Sciences, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985, in Philosophy, 61, 1986,544-46.

Review of Mary Midgley, Evolution as a Religion:  Strange Hopes  and Stranger Fears, London and New York: Methuen, 1985, in Philosophical Books, 28, 1987, 118-20.

Review of Charles Whitney, Francis  Bacon  and Modernity, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, in Journal of the History of  Philosophy, 26.4, October 1988, 665-67.

Review of Andrew Linzey, Christianity and the Rights of Animals, London, SPCK, 1987, in Theology, November 1988, 549-50.

Review of Jenny Teichman, Pacifism and the Just War: A Study in Applied Philosophy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, in Philosophical Books, 29.2, April 1988, 103-105.

Review of William A. Christian, Doctrines  of  Religious Communities: A Philosophical Study, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, in Philosophical Books, 29.4, October 1988, 252-53.

Review of Andrew Brennan, Thinking About  Nature:  An Investigation  of Nature: Value and Ecology, London: Routledge and Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988, in Journal  of Applied Philosophy, 6.2, 1989, 237-8.

Review of Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values  in the  Natural  World, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988, in Environmental Ethics, 11.4, Winter1989, 363-68.

Review of Nigel Dower (ed.), Ethics  and  Environmental Responsibility, Aldershot: Avebury, 1989, in Philosophical Books, 31.3, 1990, 177-178.

Review of David Carr, Educating the Virtues, London and New York: Routledge, 1991, in The Philosophical Quarterly, 42, no. 168, 1992, 379-82

Review of Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr and Jeffrey Paul (eds.), The Just Society, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995, in The Expository Times, 108.3, December 1996, 91a-91b; ISSN 0014-5246.

Review of Holmes Rolston III, Genes, Genesis and God , Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999, in Reason and Practice, 1.1, January  2001, 75-77; ISSN 1473-589X.

Review of Holmes Rolston III, Genes, Genesis and God , Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999, in Science and Religion Forum Reviews, 37, July 2001, 29-31; ISSN 0967-5981. (A republication of 29 above.)    

Review of Partha Dasgupta, Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, in Philosophy, 78 (2003),  123-127; ISSN 0031-8191.

Review of Nigel Dower, An Introduction to Global Citizenship, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003, in Philosophy of Management, 5.3 (2005), 126-127; ISSN 1740-3812.

Review of John O’Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light, Environmental Values, London and New York: Routledge, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-14509, in Environmental Sciences, 5(3), 2008, 1-2; ISSN 1569-3430 (print) / ISSN 1744-4225 (online)

Review of Michael Murray, Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, Oxford University Press, 2008, in Reviews in Science and Religion, 53, 2009, 37-40; ISSN 0967-5981

Review of James Maclaurin and Kim Sterelny, What Is Biodiversity? , Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008, in Philosophy, 84, 2009, 605-609. ISSN 0031-8191.

Review of Christopher J. Preston, Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III, San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2009, in Environmental Ethics, 32.4, Winter 2010, 417-420; ISSN (print) 0163-4275; (online) 2153-7895

Review of Christopher J. Preston, Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III, San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2009, in Reviews in Scence and Religion, 58, November 2011, 21-28; ISSN 0967-5981. (A republication of 36 above.)

Review of Esther McIntosh, John Macmurray’s Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a Person, Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011, forthcoming in Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2012; ISSN 1566-5399.