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Nanotechnology: "Risk, Ethics and Law"
PreviewProfessor Robin Attfield (environmental philosophy) and Professor Steven Norris (cultural studies) provided opportunities for challenging questions at a Cardiff University seminar led by Hunt in November 2003. Michael Mehta's interest in ...
Ethics, Law, and Society
PreviewProfessor Robin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy since January 1968. He has also been Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Ife, Nigeria (1972-1973) and Inter-University Council ...
Nuclear New Build?
PreviewIn The Ethics of Environmental Concern [84] Professor Robin Attfield agrees with R and V Routley that 'there is the same obligation to future people as to the present' (even for 30 000 generations, he adds, for which a discounted financial ...
Environmental Futures
PreviewMy thanks to participants at the 1994 IRNES conference and the Cardiff Philosophy Seminar, to Professor Robin Attfield, and to my fellow editors for their comments, which have resulted in modifications being made to the chapter; to that extent ...
Should Christians Be Environmentalists?
Dan Story12 The question these books raise, however, is not whether their opinions are believed but whether they're true. As philosophy professor Robin Attfield pointed out, “Even if the Bible is not despotic as to its writers' view ofnature . . . the teaching ...
Creation, Evolution and Meaning
Professor Robin AttfieldThis book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism.
Democracy and Meritocracy: Philosophical Essays and Talks ...
Godfrey B. Tangwa... Professor Robin Attfield of the University of Wales, Cardiff, not only for writing the Preface, but also for proofreading the manuscript and making a number of useful suggestions. I alone, however, bear responsibility for all shortcomings and for ...
Climate Change and Environmental Ethics
PreviewThe next essay is by Professor Robin Attfield, an environmental philosopher and ethicist from Cardiff University. He asserts that biocentrism is “intrinsically superior as an ethic, and significantly strengthens the case for strong international ...
Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age: A General Theory of ...
David G. Attfield... and University of Wales, Lampeter, UK Professor Rebecca S. Chopp, Emory University, USA Professor Judith M. Lieu, King's College London, UK Professor Vincent Brummer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Professor Gerhard Sauter, ...
Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide
Julie Newman1983: Philosophy professor Robin Attfield publishes The Ethics of Environmental Concern, exploring the history of human-centered thinking and its effects on the environment. 1986: American philosopher Paul Taylor publishes Respect for ...
Wonder, Value and God
Robin AttfieldThis book relates the value present in the natural world and in human creativity to an underlying purpose which it traces in creation.
Ethics: An Overview
Robin AttfieldA major new introduction to ethics, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students.
The Ethics of Environmental Concern
Robin AttfieldThe second edition includes a new preface and introduction, as well as a bibliographic essay and an updated list of references incorporating relevant scholarship since the publication of the first edition.
Philosophy and the Natural Environment
Robin AttfieldLeading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the environment and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications.
Value, Obligation, and Meta-ethics
Robin AttfieldThis work defends an interrelated set of theses in value-theory, normative ethics and meta-ethics.
Ethics of the Global Environment
Robin AttfieldThis fully updated and expanded textbook looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya ...
Ethics of the Global Environment
Robin AttfieldLappé, Frances Moore, and Rachel Shurman (1994), 'Taking Population Seriously', in Lori Gruen and Dale Jamieson (eds), Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, 328– 32. 254 THE ...
Theology in a Social Context: Sociological Theology
Professor Robin GillSociological Theology Professor Robin Gill. Contents. Introduction PART I: THEOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Three Sociological Approaches to Theology The Critique of Religious Sociology Explanation in Sociology and Theology Theologians ...
International Justice and the Third World: Studies in the ...
PreviewStudies in the Philosophy of Development Robin Attfield, Barry Wilkins. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 finding similar sentiments in Bookchin, 'Social ecology versus “Deep Ecology”', Green Perspectives: Newsletter of the Green ...
Creation, Environment and Ethics
Preview'Rehabilitating Nature and Making Nature Habitable', in Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey (eds.), Philosophy and the Natural Environment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 45-57; ISBN 0-521-46903-1; ISSN (as special number ...
Transatlantic Traffic And (Mis)Translations
PreviewRobin Peel, Daniel Maudlin. ABOUT THC" 6D/TORS AND CONTRIBUTORS EDITORS ROBIN PEEL is an Associate Professor and Reader in English in the School of Hu— manities at the University ofPlymouth. Since 2000 his research has ...
Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century
Robin Attfield58 Frances Moore Lappé and Rachel Shurman, 'Taking People Seriously'. 59 Crocker, 'Hunger, Capability, and Development', p. 222. 60 Jenneth Parker, ' Precautionary Principle', p. 634. 61 Parker, 'Precautionary Principle', p. 634; Parker ...
Graphic Design Solutions
Robin Landa... the Janet Estabrook Rogers Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Kean University, and Toni Toland, Professor, Syracuse University for engaging in discussion about visualization, composition, design, and storytelling—for their valuable ...
The Outlaws of Sherwood
Robin McKinleyThe Robin Hood legend comes thrillingly alive in Robin McKinley’s reimagining of the classic adventure Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King’s Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, ...
Changing Worlds: Can the Church Respond?
Robin GillIn his thought-provoking book, Professor Robin Gill identifies the main challenges facing the church and reflects on how Christians should respond.He first studies the immense moral challenges of our rapidly changing world: religion and the ...
Migration and its Enemies: Global Capital, Migrant Labour ...
Professor Robin CohenIn this book Robin Cohen shows how the preferences, interests and actions of the three major social actors in international migration policy – global capital, migrant labour and national politicians – intersect and often contradict each ...
Law and Market Economy: Reinterpreting the Values of Law and ...
Robin Paul MalloyReinterpreting the Values of Law and Economics Robin Paul Malloy. and Pertti Ahonen.12 Professor Brion has used semiotic methods to explore meanings and values in property and contract law as well as to investigate both legal and ...
John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of ...
PreviewShipley, Professor Dana F. Sutton, Professor Marica Tacconi, Professor Mara Wade, Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Dr Joanna Weinberg, and Professor Henry Woudhuysen. We would also like to thank Dr Gabriel Heaton and Dr Sarah ...
Nihilist Vision Through Literary Subversion in Mainland ...
Yinghong LiAcknowledgments i I would like to offer my sincere gratitude toward all members of my dissertation committee: Professor Nicole Huang, Professor James O'Brien, Professor Tsai-fa Cheng, Professor Robert Joe Cutter, and my advisor Professor ...
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