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Ted Toadvine   

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 focuses on contemporary continental philosophy, especially classical phenomenology and the French tradition, and environmental philosophy. Particular interests include embodiment, the philosophy of nature, and ecophenomenology. In the area of environmental philosophy, I am especially interested in the aesthetics of nature and ecological restoration.

Ongoing research projects include a monograph on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature, a collection of essays on the ecophenomenological approach to environmental philosophy, and a study of phenomenology's contribution to the aesthetics of nature.

I am managing editor of the journal Environmental Philosophy and editor of the Series in Continental Thought at Ohio University Press.

In June 2008, the University of Oregon will host a conference on the theme "Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World," for which I am the lead organizer.

TEACHING INTERESTS

I hold a joint appointment with the Environmental Studies Program, and I regularly teach in both programs.

My undergraduate course offerings regularly include:
  • Environmental Philosophy (PHIL 340 or 440)
  • Environmental Ethics (ENVS 345)
  • Environmental Aesthetics (ENVS 440/540)
I teach graduate seminars in continental philosophy and environmental theory, which have recently included courses on animality, ecophenomenology, Henri Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty.

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 serve on the University Senate and am Director of Graduate Admissions for the Environmental Studies Program. I am a member of the Wayne Morse Center Steering Committee and a faculty ambassador to the Teaching Effectiveness Program.

I am Secretary of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. I also 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:

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:

“‘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:

“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 2008 COURSE LINKS

ENVS 203: Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities

ENVS 345: Environmental Ethics

Current and past syllabi are also available on my personal webpage

 

 

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