Shaun Nichols
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Born | February 7, 1964 Wolf Point, Montana |
Nationality | United States |
Education | Stanford University, Rutgers University |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Experimental philosophy |
Institutions | Cornell University |
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Shaun Nichols (born 7 February 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at Cornell University specializing in 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 theory of mind.
Nichols's current research projects are in experimental philosophy, moral psychology, 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. 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[]
References[]
- ^ https://philosophy.cornell.edu/shaun-nichols
- ^ Jump up to: a b Academic Profile at the University of Arizona Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stanton Prize Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. 2004. Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style. Cognition, 92, B1-B12.
- ^ Nichols, S. 2006. Folk Intuitions about Free Will. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6.
- ^ Roskies, A. 2006. Neuroscientific challenges to free will and responsibility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 419-107.
- ^ Nichols, S. and Ulatowski, J. forthcoming. Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited. Mind & Language.
- ^ Sosa, E. 2006. Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Intuition. Philosophical Studies, 132, 99-107.
- ^ Nadelhoffer, T. & Nahmias, E. 2007. The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy. Philosophical Explorations, 10, 123-149.
- ^ Nichols, S. 2002. Norms with Feeling: Towards a Psychological Account of Moral Judgment, Cognition, 84, 221-236.
- ^ Nichols, S. 2004. Sentimental Rules. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Andreou, C. 2006. Morality and Psychology. Philosophy Compass, 2, 46-55.
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- Living people
- Philosophers from Arizona
- University of Arizona faculty
- Stanford University alumni
- Rutgers University alumni
- 21st-century American philosophers
- Moral psychologists
- 1964 births