Ted Toadvine Department of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 toadvine [at] uoregon.edu (541) 346-5554 :Office (room 319 PLC) (541) 346-5544 :FAX Personal Webpage: http://www.uoregon.edu/~toadvine

RESEARCH INTERESTS My research addresses the intersection of phenomenology, post-structuralism, and the philosophy of nature. I am especially interested in the human-nature relationship in all of its facets, e.g., the experience of nature and its expression in language and art, the relation between thought and nature as this is mediated by our embodiment, our animality and its relation to the lives of nonhuman animals, the intellectual history of concepts of nature, and nature's role in conceptions of philosophical reflection. My recent work develops these ideas in two directions. First, I am interested in what phenomenological description can reveal about nature's resistance to reflection, and in what this resistance teaches us about the methods of phenomenology. Secondly, I investigate the role that our conceptions of the human-nature relation play in shaping our responses to concrete environmental problems, especially in the areas of agriculture, ecological restoration, environmental aesthetics, technology, and wilderness preservation. As a result of my work with the Environmental Studies Program, I am also engaged in thinking about the role that the humanities play in interdisciplinarity environmental research and education. Major inspirations for my work include Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Naess. In fall of 2009, I will be a Resident Scholar with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, in conjunction with their 2009-11 theme of "Climate Ethics and Cimate Equity." I will also be the 2009-10 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professor in the Humanities, an honor that I will share with biologist Brendan Bohannan. Brendan and I were jointly awarded Wulf Professorships by the Oregon Humanities Center for our proposed course in "Philosophy of Ecology: Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge," to be offered in Spring 2010. For the Merleau-Ponty centennial in 2008, I presented papers at conferences in Basel, Paris, Morelia, Pittsburgh, Bergen, and Lisbon. I have recently published essays in Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Alter: Revue de phénoménologie, and Analecta Husserliana. My book, Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature, will be published by Northwestern University Press in Spring 2009, and I am at work now on a sequel tentatively titled Nature and Resistance: Essays in Ecophenomenology. I am managing editor of the journal Environmental Philosophy and editor of the Series in Continental Thought at Ohio University Press.

TEACHING INTERESTS I hold a joint appointment with the Environmental Studies Program, and I regularly teach in both programs. My graduate seminars address themes and figures in contemporary continental philosophy and environmental philosophy. Topics of recent courses include the following: Ecotheory in Art and Philosophy (team-taught with Carla Bengtson, Art) Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Animality Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception Henri Bergson Environmental Aesthetics My undergraduate course offerings regularly include: Environmental Philosophy (PHIL 340 or 440) Environmental Ethics (ENVS 345) Environmental Aesthetics (ENVS 440/540) I also teach the Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities course (ENVS 203) required of all ENVS/ESCI majors, and a seminar for incoming ENVS graduate students, Environmental Studies in Theory and Practice (ENVS 610). Copies of my current and recent course syllabi are available on my personal webpage.

SERVICE At the University of Oregon, I am the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy. I serve on the University Senate, the Wayne Morse Center Steering Committee, and the Environmental Studies Executive Committee. I am also a faculty ambassador to the Teaching Effectiveness Program. I serve on the Board of Directors of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., the Advisory Board for the journal Environmental Ethics, and the Editorial Board of the Contributions to Phenomenology Series at Springer Publishing.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (A copy of my CV is available on my personal webpage) Books: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming in 2009. With Leonard Lawlor (eds). The Merleau-Ponty Reader. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 2007. With Charles S. Brown (eds.) Nature’s Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice. Albany: SUNY Press. 2007. Editor, Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 vols. London: Routledge. 2006. Translation (with Leonard Lawlor) of Renaud Barbaras, The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. With Charles S. Brown (eds). Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003. With Lester Embree (eds). Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Journal Articles: “La resistencia de la verdad en Merleau-Ponty,” Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, Special Issue: Merleau-Ponty Desde la Fenomenología en su Primer Centenario, 1908-2008 (2008): 237–53. “The Reconversion of Silence and Speech,” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 70 (2008): 457–77. "Le Passage du temps naturel,” Alter: Revue de phénoménologie 16 (2008): 157–69. “‘Strange Kinship’: Merleau-Ponty on the Human-Animal Relation,” Phenomenology of Life - From the Animal Soul to the Human Mind, Book I. In Search of Experience, Analecta Husserliana 93 (2007): 17-32. "Gestalts and Refrains: On the Musical Structure of Nature," Environmental Philosophy 2, no. 2 (Fall 2005). "The Melody of Life and the Motif of Philosophy," Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought 7 (2005). "Limits of the Flesh: The Role of Reflection in David Abram's Ecophenomenology," Environmental Ethics 27, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 155-170. "Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense," Janus Head 7, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 273-283. "Phenomenological Method in Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Gurwitsch." Husserl Studies 17, no. 3 (2001): 195-205. "Chiasm and Chiaroscuro: The Logic of the Epoche," Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought 3 (2001): 225-241. "Nature and Negation: Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Bergson," Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought 2 (2000): 107-118. "The Cogito in Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Intersubjectivity," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (May 2000): 197-202. "Naturalizing Phenomenology." In Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existentialism, vol. 25, edited by Linda Alcoff and Walter Brogan. Supplement to Philosophy Today 44 (1999): 124-131. "The Art of Doubting: Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne," Philosophy Today 41 (Winter 1997): 545-553. Book Chapters: “Phenomenology and ‘hyper-reflection’.” In Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, edited by Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds, 17–29. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2008. “How Not to Be a Jellyfish: Human Exceptionalism and the Ontology of Reflection.” In Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience, edited by Christian Lotz and Corinne Painter. Berlin: Springer, 2007. “Ecophenomenology and the Resistance of Nature.” In The Future of Applied Phenomenology: The Second Conference of Phenomenology as Bridge between East and West, edited by Nam-In Lee, 225–41. Seoul: Korean Society for Phenomenology, 2007. “Culture and Cultivation: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Agriculture,” in Nature’s Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, edited by Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine, 207–22. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. "Sense and Non-Sense of the Event in Merleau-Ponty." In Ereignis auf Französisch: Von Bergson bis Deleuze, edited by Marc Rölli. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2004. "The Primacy of Desire and its Ecological Consequences." In Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, edited by Charles Brown and Ted Toadvine, 139-153. Albany: SUNY, 2003. "Leaving Husserl's Cave? The Philosopher's Shadow Revisited." In Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl, edited by Ted Toadvine and Lester Embree, 71-94. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. "Ecophenomenology in the New Millennium." In The Reach of Reflection: Issues in Phenomenology's Second Century, edited by Steven Crowell, Lester Embree, and Samuel J. Julian. Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., 2001. Spring 2009 COURSE LINKS Ecotheory in Art and Philosopy (ART 407/507) Current and past syllabi are also available on my personal webpage