Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Year Joined RCNJ: 2025

Contact Information

• Phone: 201-684-7415
• Email: zpeck@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-201
• Office Hours: T 9:00-12:00 pm

Education:

• B.S. East Tennessee State University
• M.A. Georgia State University
• M.S. University of Georgia
• Ph.D. University of Cincinnati

Courses Offered:

• PHIL 209: Science: Methods and Myths
• PHIL 233: Ethics
• DATA 225: Ethics of Technology

Teaching Interests:

• Philosophy and ethics of technology
• Philosophy of science
• Cognitive science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Logic

Research Interests:

• Philosophy and ethics of technology
• Social ontology
• Cognitive science
• Artificial intelligence

Scholarly Activity:

• “Larson, B., Peck, Z., Ebbs, J., & Del Prado, V. (Forthcoming). “Navigating Controversial Terrain: Using Ethics Bowl-Style Pedagogy to Teach Philosophy in Polarized Contexts.” AAPT Studies in Pedagogy.
• Peck, Z. (2024) “Towards an enactivist conception of what constitutes collective action,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
• Peck, Z. & Chemero, A. (2024) “Questioning Two Common Assumptions concerning Group Agency and Group Cognition,” Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 5266-5272.
• Feiten, E., Peck, Z., Holland, K., & Chemero, A. (2023) “Constructive constraints: On the role of chance and complexity in artistic creativity,” Possibility Studies & Society, 1 (3).