Adam Lerner
719 Broadway, Room 1226
adam.lerner@nyu.edu, 1-212-992-3717
Education:
Princeton University, PhD, philosophy
The College of William & Mary, BA, philosophy and psychology
Areas of interest: ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, political philosophy
Adam Lerner is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Bioethics. He completed his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 2018. He is currently working on empathy, moral epistemology, moral motivation, moral status, population ethics, and distributive justice.
Publications:
“The Puzzle of Pure Moral Motivation,” (2018), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 13, 123-144.
“Generics and Experimental Philosophy,” (2016; with Sarah-Jane Leslie), in A Companion to Experimental Philosophy (edited by Justin Sytsma and Wesley Buckwalter).
“Generic Generalizations,” (2016; with Sarah-Jane Leslie), in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (edited by Edward N. Zalta), http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics/.
“Self-Ownership and Disgust: Why Compulsory Body Part Redistribution Gets Under Our Skin,” (2015; with Christopher Freiman), Philosophical Studies, 172 (12), 3167-3190.
“Generics, Generalism, and Reflective Equilibrium: Implications for Moral Theorizing from the Study of Language,” (2013; with Sarah-Jane Leslie), Philosophical Perspectives, 27, 366-403.
