Faculty

Profile

Zed Adams joined the 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.

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Degrees Held

PhD 2008, University of Chicago

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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)

 

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Research Interests

Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind

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Current Courses

Dogmas of Empiricism

French Reading Group

German Reading Group

Greek/Latin Reading Group

Illusion of Color

Ind Senior Project

Independent Study

Introductory Proseminar

Spanish Language Group

The Second Sense