Marder carried out research in
phenomenology as an FCT fellow at the
University of Lisbon, Portugal, and held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh. 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
continental philosophy, 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. ==Bibliography==