THE SCHWEITZER INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Founder/Director Benedict Rattigan 

Environmental ethics is about considering the moral and ethical relationship of human beings to non-human animals and the environment. 

The Schweitzer Institute is affiliated with Peterhouse, Cambridge. We organise conferences, publish a peer-reviewed journal, finance a Research Fellowship, and with our sister organisations in the US we conduct local, national and international programs that link education, ethics, and voluntarism for the sake of creating a more peaceful and sustainable world.

The Schweitzer Institute for Environmental Ethics is registered with the Charity Commission as the Schweitzer Foundation UK (Charity 1187127).

Published by Routledge in 2023

Is our world ruled by order or by disorder? This is a question that has engaged philosophers and scientists for thousands of years. We can trace it back through the British Museum's collection to ancient Greek philosophers; Egypt's pharaoh dynasties, ancient Chinese Taoists and to Buddhism's origins in India. 

Edited by Benedict Rattigan, Denis Noble and Afiq Hatta, The Language of Symmetry brings together a team of Oxford University professors to explain in everyday terms the role of symmetry in their fields of mathematics, music, logic, philosophy, physics, chemistry, astronomy and biology. 

'Finding that there is a fundamental symmetry between order and disorder that can run through all our explanations is like discovering a clarification that was always waiting there to be revealed.'