Faculty A-Z

Zed Adams

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Email:

zed@newschool.edu

Office Location:

Albert and Vera List Academic Center

Profile:

Zed Adams joined the NSSR’s Philosophy department in 2008. 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

“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