Zed Adams
Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy; Co-director, Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities
Email
zed@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - Albert & Vera List Academic Center - 6 East 16th Street
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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