Naomi Zack

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Philosopher

Naomi Zack received her PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Zack’s newest book is White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of US Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (April 2015). Her latest book is The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (2011, 2015). Zack’s recent books are Ethics for Disaster (2009, 2010), Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women’s Commonality (2005), and The Handy Answer Philosophy Book (2010). Zack’s earlier books include: Race and Mixed Race (1993); Bachelors of Science (1996); Philosophy of Science and Race (2002), and the short textbook, Thinking About Race (2nd edition, 2006). Zack’s forthcoming book is The Theory of Applicative Justice: An Empirical Pragmatic Approach to Correcting Racial Injustice (2016). In progress is a 50-contributor Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Race (2017). Zack also organizes the project on home and homelessness for the University of Oregon Philosophy Department. See her website Homelessness and Home.