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Tom Greaves

University of East Anglia, School of Philosophy, Faculty Member

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BA (Hons) Sussex; MA, PhD Warwick.

Teaches: Phenomenology and Existentialism, Aesthetics, Philosophy of History, Nietzsche and Post-Kantian Philosophy

Researches: Heidegger, environmental philosophy, hermeneutics and the philosophy of nature, German Idealism and romanticism, environmental aesthetics, ancient philosophy.
Address: Philosophy
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ

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Chapters by Tom Greaves

THE FLAMING RAGE OF THE SEA

ROAR, 2019

A conversation about the value of nature, capitalism, film, time and the film 'The Flaming Rage o... more

Nature and Experience: Phenomenology and the Environment

Chapter 3 'Natural Phenomena: The Birth and Growth of Experience'

Heidegger and the Earth

Papers by Tom Greaves

The Appearance, Disappearance and Reappearance of Nature

Environmental Values, 2020

Movement, Wildness and Animal Aesthetics

Environmental Values, 2019

The key role that animals play in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world has only gradua... more The key role that animals play in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world has only gradually been highlighted in discussions in environmental aesthet- ics. In this article I make use of the phenomenological notion of ‘perceptual sense’ as developed by Merleau-Ponty to argue that open-ended expressive- responsive movement is the primary aesthetic ground for our appreciation of animals. It is through their movement that the array of qualities we admire in animals are manifest qua animal qualities. Against functionalist and formalist accounts, I defend and develop an account of expressive-responsive movement as the primary perceptual sense of animals. I go on to suggest that the primacy of movement in the aesthetic appreciation of animals is also the primary sense of animal ‘wildness’, and that a key part of the rewilding paradigm should be the development of such appreciation.

Where Value Resides: Making Ecological Value Possible

Environmental Ethics, 2015

Environmental Arts as First Philosophy

The Word's Silent Spring

Re-enacting Natural Histories: Heidegger and Collingwood on the Historicity of Living Nature

Book by Tom Greaves

Starting with Heidegger

Translation by Tom Greaves

Honneth -Afterword to The Idea of Nature

Afterword to ‘Die Idee der Natur', 2011

Book Reviews by Tom Greaves

Climate Change and the Moral Agent Review

Clio among the Muses Review

Talks by Tom Greaves

Reliable Wonder? Beyond Astonishment and Admiration

The Aesthetics of Dams and Wind Turbines

Thesis by Tom Greaves

The Poverty of Ecology: Heidegger, Living Nature and Environmental Thought

THE FLAMING RAGE OF THE SEA

ROAR, 2019

A conversation about the value of nature, capitalism, film, time and the film 'The Flaming Rage o... more

Nature and Experience: Phenomenology and the Environment

Chapter 3 'Natural Phenomena: The Birth and Growth of Experience'

Heidegger and the Earth

The Appearance, Disappearance and Reappearance of Nature

Environmental Values, 2020

Movement, Wildness and Animal Aesthetics

Environmental Values, 2019

The key role that animals play in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world has only gradua... more The key role that animals play in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world has only gradually been highlighted in discussions in environmental aesthet- ics. In this article I make use of the phenomenological notion of ‘perceptual sense’ as developed by Merleau-Ponty to argue that open-ended expressive- responsive movement is the primary aesthetic ground for our appreciation of animals. It is through their movement that the array of qualities we admire in animals are manifest qua animal qualities. Against functionalist and formalist accounts, I defend and develop an account of expressive-responsive movement as the primary perceptual sense of animals. I go on to suggest that the primacy of movement in the aesthetic appreciation of animals is also the primary sense of animal ‘wildness’, and that a key part of the rewilding paradigm should be the development of such appreciation.

Where Value Resides: Making Ecological Value Possible

Environmental Ethics, 2015

Environmental Arts as First Philosophy

The Word's Silent Spring

Re-enacting Natural Histories: Heidegger and Collingwood on the Historicity of Living Nature

Starting with Heidegger

Honneth -Afterword to The Idea of Nature

Afterword to ‘Die Idee der Natur', 2011

Climate Change and the Moral Agent Review

Clio among the Muses Review

Reliable Wonder? Beyond Astonishment and Admiration

The Aesthetics of Dams and Wind Turbines

The Poverty of Ecology: Heidegger, Living Nature and Environmental Thought