Ewch i’r prif gynnwys
Robin Attfield MA (Oxon), PhD (Wales), DLitt (Cardiff)

Yr Athro Robin Attfield

MA (Oxon), PhD (Wales), DLitt (Cardiff)

Professor / Sêr Cymru Research Chair in Neurobiology

Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth

Trosolwyg

Mae Robin Attfield yn Athro Emeritws mewn Athroniaeth (ENCAP) a hefyd o'r Sefydliad Ymchwil Lleoedd Cynaliadwy. Bu'n dysgu ac ymchwilio i feysydd athroniaeth gan gynnwys moeseg, athroniaeth crefydd, hanes athroniaeth ac athroniaeth amgylcheddol rhwng 1968 a 2009, ac mae'n parhau i weithio yn y meysydd hyn. Mae'n awdur neu'n olygydd 15 o lyfrau a thros 250 o erthyglau a phenodau. Ei lyfr diweddaraf yw 'Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction', a gyhoeddwyd gan Oxford University Press yn 2018. Ei lyfr blaenorol oedd 'Wonder, Value and God', a gyhoeddwyd i ddechrau gan Ashgate yn 2016, ac sydd bellach yn cael ei farchnata gan Routledge. Ar hyn o bryd, mae'n gweld drwy'r wasg lyfr i'w alw'n 'Environmental Thought: A Short History', sydd i'w gyhoeddi gan Polity Press (Caergrawnt), sydd hefyd yn gythraul ei werslyfr 'Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century' (ail argraffiad, 2014). Derbyniodd dros 56,000 o ddarlleniadau ar ResesarchGate.

Cyhoeddiad

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  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Palmer. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 121-127.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Crisp. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 97-104.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Southgate. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 75-85.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Holland. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 53-60.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Dower. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 33-37.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Creation, Environment and Ethics: Some Cardiff-Based Contributions to Philosophy. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 1-12.

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  • Attfield, R. 2000. Christianity and nature. In: Jamieson, D. ed. A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 96-110.

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Articles

Book sections

  • Attfield, R. 2013. Biocentrism. In: LaFollette, H. ed. International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, (10.1002/9781444367072)
  • Attfield, R. 2012. Sustainability. In: LaFollette, H. ed. International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 5092-5101.
  • Attfield, R. 2012. Evolution and Agapeistic Ethics. In: Harris, H. A. ed. God, Goodness and Philosophy. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 123-130.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Environmental ethics. In: Clark, K. ed. Ethics in the Biosciences: Resources, References and Tools for Ethics Teaching in the Biosciences. Leeds: UK Centre for Bioscience Briefing, pp. 11.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Beyond anthropocentrism. In: O’Hear, A. and Rolston, H. eds. Philosophy and the Environment. Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement Vol. 69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 29-46.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Ecological issues of justice. In: Bergmann, S. and Eaton, H. eds. Ecological Awareness: Exploring Religion, Ethics and Aesthetics. Studies in Religion and the Environment Vol. 3. Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 183-191.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Intrinsic value and transgenic animals. In: Vyas, M. A. ed. Issues in Ethics and Animal Rights. Delhi: Regency Publications, pp. 41-57.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Brundtland Commission. In: Allin, C. W. ed. Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues., Vol. 1. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, pp. 205.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Biocentrism. In: Allin, C. W. ed. Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues., Vol. 1. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, pp. 146-147.
  • Attfield, R. 2011. Ecological Issues of Justice. In: Widdows, H. and Smith, N. eds. Global Social Justice. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 82-89.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Palmer. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 121-127.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Crisp. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 97-104.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Southgate. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 75-85.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Holland. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 53-60.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Reply to Dower. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 33-37.
  • Attfield, R. 2010. Creation, Environment and Ethics: Some Cardiff-Based Contributions to Philosophy. In: Humphreys, R. and Vlacos, S. eds. Creation, Ethics and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 1-12.
  • Attfield, R. 2009. 'Biocentrism'; 'Hunger'; 'Lynn White, Jr, 1907-1987'. In: Callicott, J. and Frodeman, R. eds. Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy., Vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 97-100; 495.
  • Attfield, R. 2009. Philosophy on poetry, philosophy in poetry. In: Yan, J. and Shrader, D. eds. Creating a Global Dialogue on Value Inquiry. Lewiston, NY; Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 417-32.
  • Attfield, R. 2008. Cudworth, Prior and Passmore on the autonomy of ethics. In: Hutton, S. and Hedley Brooke, J. eds. Platonism at the Origins of Modernity. Berlin: Springer, pp. 147-159.
  • Attfield, R. 2000. Christianity and nature. In: Jamieson, D. ed. A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 96-110.

Books

Ymchwil

Robin Attfield's research concerns ethics, philosophy of religion, history of ideas and environmental philosophy.

One recently published book is Creation, Evolution and Meaning, an interdisciplinary work bestriding the philosophies of religion, science and meaning and environmental ethics, published by Ashgate in 2006. 
His previous book was Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century(Polity/Blackwell, 2003). His edited collection The Ethics of the Environment was published by Ashgate in 2008.

Research Interests

  • environmental philosophy (most branches)
  • ethics (including history of ethics)
  • history of ideas (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
  • philosophy of religion (religious language and theistic arguments)

Bywgraffiad

Astudiodd Robin athroniaeth, clasuron a hanes hynafol yn Eglwys Crist, Rhydychen a Diwinyddiaeth yng Ngholeg Regent's Park, Rhydychen, ac ymgymerodd ag ymchwil ym Mhrifysgol Manceinion, ac mae wedi bod yn darlithio mewn Athroniaeth yng Nghaerdydd ers Ionawr 1968. Mae hefyd wedi dysgu yn Nigeria (1972-3) ac yn Kenya (1975). Cwblhawyd ei PhD yng Nghymru yn 1972, ac mae wedi bod yn Athro Athroniaeth o 1992.

Dyfarnwyd ei DLitt gan Brifysgol Caerdydd yn 2008.

Mae'n aelod o Gyngor y Sefydliad Athroniaeth Brenhinol, a hyd yn ddiweddar bu'n aelod cyfetholedig o Bwyllgor Gwaith Cymdeithas Athronyddol Prydain. Mae'n gadeirydd cangen Caerdydd o'r Sefydliad Athroniaeth Brenhinol, ac mae wedi cymryd rhan yn ddiweddar mewn gweithgor rhyngwladol UNESCO ar Foeseg Amgylcheddol.

Contact Details

Email AttfieldR@caerdydd.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29206 88730

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