Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country,

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. He works in the phenomenological tradition of

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, environmental thought, and

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Education

Marder studied at universities in Canada and the U.S. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the

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. Marder carried out post-doctoral research in the Department of Philosophy at the

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, and taught at

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, and St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan.

Career

Marder carried out research in phenomenology as an FCT fellow at the

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, Portugal, and held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University in

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. before accepting the Ikerbasque research professorship at the University of the Basque Country. Marder is an editorial associate of the journal ''Telos'' (New York) and an editor of two book series: ''Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy'' Series and ''Critical Plant Studies'' . Much of his philosophical work has focused on building philosophies that take into account plants as beings with their own form of subjectivity, which has included showing how the field of philosophy, especially the tradition of

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, has neglected plants or treated them as " other", and how the field has been poorer for it. Dominic Pettman found Marder's book ''Plant-Thinking'' to be a work that made a substantial contribution to that nascent field, but also at times too simplistic, for example idealizing the ways that plants co-exist with other beings and not taking into account the ways that plants attack and defend against other beings.

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References

External links

MichaelMarder.org
- Marder's webpage {{DEFAULTSORT:Marder, Michael 21st-century Spanish philosophers 20th-century Spanish philosophers Basque academics Environmental philosophers Spanish ecologists Heidegger scholars Phenomenologists Philosophers of biology Spanish political philosophers Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country Living people 1980 births Contemporary philosophers Carl Schmitt scholars