Peter Atterton
Peter Atterton has been faculty member of the Philosophy Department at SDSU since 2005. A native of England, he obtained his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Essex. He moved to the United States in 1995. He has taught at the University of San Diego and UC San Diego.
Dr. Atterton teaches classes in Continental philosophy, existentialism, biomedical ethics, social ethics, and environmental ethics. He served as Department Chair from 2013 to 2016 and as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Letters from 2016 to 2019.
In addition to extensive work on Emmanuel Levinas, Dr. Atterton has written on Kantian ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, psychoanalysis, human rights, and the sci-fi movie Blade Runner.
In the early 2000s Dr. Atterton began to develop an interest in “the animal question.” His current research focuses on the philosophical implications of Darwinism, animal rights, and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. In addition to his various co-edited books: The Continental Ethics Reader (Routledge), Levinas and Buber (Duquesne), Animal Philosophy (Continuum), Radicalizing Levinas (SUNY), Face to Face with Levinas: Levinas and the Animal Question (SUNY), his articles have been published in Kant-Studien, History of the Human Sciences Journal, Inquiry, The Psychoanalytic Review, Philosophy Today, International Studies in Philosophy, and Symplokē, among others. He is co-author of On Levinas (Wadsworth) and was guest editor of Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. 5.
He is a devotee of music and running, an advocate of the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship, and is also a hospice volunteer.
Dr. Atterton teaches classes in Continental philosophy, existentialism, biomedical ethics, social ethics, and environmental ethics. He served as Department Chair from 2013 to 2016 and as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Letters from 2016 to 2019.
In addition to extensive work on Emmanuel Levinas, Dr. Atterton has written on Kantian ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, psychoanalysis, human rights, and the sci-fi movie Blade Runner.
In the early 2000s Dr. Atterton began to develop an interest in “the animal question.” His current research focuses on the philosophical implications of Darwinism, animal rights, and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. In addition to his various co-edited books: The Continental Ethics Reader (Routledge), Levinas and Buber (Duquesne), Animal Philosophy (Continuum), Radicalizing Levinas (SUNY), Face to Face with Levinas: Levinas and the Animal Question (SUNY), his articles have been published in Kant-Studien, History of the Human Sciences Journal, Inquiry, The Psychoanalytic Review, Philosophy Today, International Studies in Philosophy, and Symplokē, among others. He is co-author of On Levinas (Wadsworth) and was guest editor of Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. 5.
He is a devotee of music and running, an advocate of the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship, and is also a hospice volunteer.
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