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Shaun Nichols

Professor

snichols@philosophy.utah.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
260 S. Central Campus Drive
Orson Spencer Hall, Room 341
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

phone: (801) 581-5197
 




Brief Biography: Ph.D., Rutgers University - Philosophy of Psychology

Recent Publications:

Books:

Nichols, S. 2004.  Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

 

Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2003.  Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretense, Self-awareness  and Understanding Other Minds.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

 

Articles: 

 

Nichols, S. & Knobe, J. forthcoming. “Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions.” Nous.

 

Nichols, S. “Folk Intuitions on Free Will” Journal of Cognition and Culture.

 

Nichols, S. & Mallon, R.  “Moral Dilemmas and Moral Rules” Cognition.

 

Nichols, S. forthcoming.  “Just the Imagination: Why Imagining Doesn’t Behave Like Believing” Mind & Language.

 

Nichols, S. 2005. “Innateness and Moral Psychology.”  In The Innate Mind: Structure and Content, eds. P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, and S. Stich.  New York: Oxford University Press.  

 

Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. 2004.  “Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style.”  Cognition, 92, B1-B12.

 

Nichols, S.  2004. “After Objectivity: An Empirical Study of Moral Judgment.”  Philosophical Psychology, 17, 5-28.

 

Nichols, S. 2004. “Folk Concepts and Intuitions: From Philosophy to Cognitive Science.”  Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

 

Nichols, S. 2004.  “Folk Psychology of Free Will.”  Mind & Language, 19, 473-502.

 

Nichols, S. 2004. “Imagining and Believing: The Promise of a Single Code.”  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special issue on Art, Mind, and Cognitive Science, 62, 129-139.

 

Nichols, S. 2004. “Is Religion What We Want?  Motivation and the Cultural Transmission of Religious Representations,” Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4, 347-371.

 

Nichols, S. 2004. Review of Currie & Ravenscroft Recreative Imagination.  Mind, 113, 329-334.

 

Nichols, S. 2003.  “Imagination and the Puzzles of Iteration.”  Analysis, 63, 182-7.

 

Nichols, S. and Folds-Bennett, T. 2003. “Are Children Moral Objectivists?  Children’s Judgments about Moral and Response-Dependent Properties.”  Cognition, 90, B23-32.

 

Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2003.  “How to Read Your Own Mind:  A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness.”  In Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays, eds. Q. Smith and A. Jokic. Oxford University Press, 157-200.

 

Nichols, S., Stich, S., and Weinberg, J. 2003.  “Metaskepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology.”  In The Skeptics, ed. S. Luper. Burlington, VT:  Ashgate, 227-247.

 

Nichols, S. 2002.  “How Psychopaths Threaten Moral Rationalism:  Is It Irrational to Be Amoral?”The Monist, 85, 285-304.

 

Nichols, S. 2002.  “Norms with Feeling: Towards a Psychological Account of Moral Judgment,” Cognition, 84, 221-236.

 

Nichols, S. 2002. “On the Genealogy of Norms:  A Case for the Role of Emotion in Cultural Evolution,” Philosophy of Science, 69, 234-255.

 

Nichols, S. 2001.  “The Mind’s ‘I’ and the Theory of Mind’s ‘I’:  Introspection and Two Concepts of Self,”  Philosophical Topics, 28, 171-199.

 

Nichols, S. 2001. “Mindreading and the Cognitive Architecture underlying Altruistic Motivation,”Mind & Language, 16, 425-455.

 

Weinberg, J., Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2001.  “Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions,”  Philosophical Topics, 29, 429-460.

 

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