Shaun Nichols

Shaun Nichols
Born	February 7, 1964 Wolf Point, Montana
Nationality	American
Education	Stanford University, Rutgers University
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Experimental philosophy
Institutions	Cornell University
Website	sites.google.com/view/shaunbnichols/home

Shaun Nichols (born 7 February 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at Cornell University specializing in the philosophy of cognitive sciences, moral psychology and philosophy of mind. ^[1]

Education and career

Nichols received his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers in 1992 under the supervision of Stephen Stich ^[2] and his BA in philosophy from Stanford. He is a leading contributor to experimental philosophy and was awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2005. ^[3]

He taught at the College of Charleston, University of Arizona and, since 2019, Cornell University.

Philosophical work

His early work was concerned primarily with questions in the theory of mind and the nature of imagination.

Nichols's current research projects are in experimental philosophy, moral psychology, bayesian cognitive science, cultural evolution, free will, and the self. ^[2]

Experimental philosophy

In his work within experimental philosophy, Nichols has addressed questions about cross-cultural differences in semantic intuitions, ^[4] free will, ^{[5] [6]} intentional action, ^{[7] [8] [9]} the nature of moral judgment, ^{[10] [11] [12]} and a number of other key philosophical concepts.

Bibliography

Authored

• Nichols, S. 2021. Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-886915-3
• Nichols, S. 2004. Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-516934-8
• Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2003. Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretense, Self-awareness and Understanding Other Minds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-823609-2

Edited

• Knobe, J. & Nichols, S. 2008. Experimental Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-532325-2
• Nichols, S. 2006. The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretense, Possibility, and Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-927572-4
• Nadelhoffer, T., Nahmias, E., & Nichols, S. 2012. Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

1. "Shaun Nichols | Sage School of Philosophy Cornell Arts & Sciences".
2. Academic Profile at the University of Arizona Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
3. Stanton Prize Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
4. Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. 2004. Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style. Cognition, 92, B1-B12.
5. Nichols, S. 2006. Folk Intuitions about Free Will. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6.
6. Roskies, A. 2006. Neuroscientific challenges to free will and responsibility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 419-107.
7. Nichols, S. and Ulatowski, J. forthcoming. Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited. Mind & Language.
8. Sosa, E. 2006. Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Intuition. Philosophical Studies, 132, 99-107.
9. Nadelhoffer, T. & Nahmias, E. 2007. The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy. Philosophical Explorations, 10, 123-149.
10. Nichols, S. 2002. Norms with Feeling: Towards a Psychological Account of Moral Judgment, Cognition, 84, 221-236.
11. Nichols, S. 2004. Sentimental Rules. Oxford University Press.
12. Andreou, C. 2006. Morality and Psychology. Philosophy Compass, 2, 46-55.

External links

• Shaun Nichols homepage
• Video (and audio) of interview/conversation with Nichols by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv