Zed Adams
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Co-director, Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities
Email
zed@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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**On leave Fall 2022 and Spring 2023**
Zed Adams joined the Philosophy department in 2008 and co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities in 2020. His research interests include ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of mind. Most recently he has published On the Genealogy of Color: A Case Study in Historicized Conceptual Analysis, an engagement with philosophical debates about color realism which foregrounds the history of color science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Degrees Held
PhD 2008, University of Chicago
Recent Publications
Books
Giving a Damn: Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland, co-editor with Jake Browning, (MIT Press, 2016)
On the Genealogy of Color: A Case Study in Historicized Conceptual Analysis (Routledge, 2015)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Philosophy and Science in the Modern Age,” co-author Jake Browning, in The Cultural History of Colour: The Modern Age, eds. Sarah Street and Anders Steinvall (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming).
“The Myth of the Common Sense Conception of Color,” co-author Nat Hansen, in Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy And Psychology of Conceptual Variability, eds. Åsa Wikforss and Teresa Marques (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Surface Noise,” British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 58, No. 3 (2018)
“On the Ontology of Mechanically Reproduced Artworks” (Popular Music and Society, 2015)
"Cognitive Spread: Under What Conditions Does the Mind Extend Beyond the Body?" (with Chauncey Maher, European Journal of Philosophy, 2015)
"Against Moral Intellectualism" (Philosophical Investigations, 2014)
"Chauncey Maher, Strange but True: On the Counter-Intuitiveness of the Extended Mind Hypothesis" (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2013)
Research Interests
Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
Current Courses
AI: The Act of Interpretation
GPHI 6789, Fall 2022
AI: The Act of Interpretation
GLIB 6789, Fall 2022
Independent Study
GPHI 6990, Fall 2022
Independent Study
LPHI 3950, Fall 2022
Future Courses
Ind Senior Project
LPHI 4990, Spring 2023
Independent Study
LPHI 3950, Spring 2023
Independent Study
GPHI 6990, Spring 2023
Past Courses
Arts and Communication
GPHI 6788, Spring 2022
French Reading Group
GPHI 5013, Spring 2022
German Reading Group
GPHI 5014, Spring 2022
Greek/Latin Reading Group
GPHI 5012, Spring 2022
Ind Senior Project
LPHI 4990, Spring 2022
Independent Study
LPHI 3950, Spring 2022
Independent Study
GPHI 6990, Spring 2022
Spanish Language Group
GPHI 5020, Spring 2022