Ted Toadvine is Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and professor of philosophy. He joined Penn State in 2017 after holding the position of professor of philosophy and environmental studies at the University of Oregon, where he served as Head of Philosophy in 2011–2014. He has held the posts of visiting researcher at Kingston University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, resident scholar at the University of Oregon’s Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, visiting associate professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College, Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professor in the Humanities at the Oregon Humanities Center, visiting professor of philosophy at Kalamazoo College, and William F. Dietrich Research Fellow in Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.