home > TRiO and USP Programs > McNair > symposium > 2005 presentations > Ted Toadvine

Ted Toadvine, Mentor
Philosophy

Nanda Golden, McNair Scholar

Ted Toadvine received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Memphis in 1996. He joined the UO faculty in 2003 with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Environmental Studies Program. His teaching interests follow his background in continental philosophy and phenomenology as well as his abiding interest in environmental philosophy. Publications include "Phenomenological Method in Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Gurwitsch," Husserl Studies (2001), "Sense and Non-Sense of the Event in Merleau-Ponty," in Ereignis auf Französisch: Von Bergson bis Deleuze (2004); and "Limits of the Flesh: The Role of Reflection in David Abram’s Ecophenomenology," Environmental Ethics (forthcoming). Toadvine spent a portion of this year completing his monograph, Limits of the Flesh: An Essay in Ecological Phenomenology, which applies the methods of phenomenogy and recent French thought to problems in environmental philosophy.