Curriculum Vitae
(abbreviated)
Shaun Nichols
Department of Philosophy Office
Phone: 801.581.8161
University of Utah Fax:
801.585.5195
260 S. Central Campus Drive Home Phone:
801.582.9804
Orson Spencer Hall, Room 341 Email: snichols@philosophy.utah.edu
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Professional
Positions:
Professor Department
of Philosophy, University of Utah, 2004-
Harry Lightsey Associate College of Charleston,
2000-2004
Professor in Humanities
Associate Professor Department of
Philosophy, College of Charleston, 1998-2004
Assistant Professor Department of
Philosophy, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, 1992-1998.
Education:
Ph.D.
Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Degree
conferred October, 1992. Philosophy.
B.A. Stanford
University, Stanford, California.
Degree conferred
May, 1986. Philosophy.
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.
Edited volume:
Nichols, S. forthcoming. The Architecture of the Imagination: New
Essays on Pretense, Possibility, and Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Articles:
Nichols, S. forthcoming. “Folk Intuitions about Free Will.” Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Nichols, S. forthcoming. “Innateness and
Moral Psychology.” In The Innate
Mind: Structure and Content, eds. P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, and S.
Stich. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Nichols, S. forthcoming. “Just the
Imagination: Why Imagining Doesn’t Behave Like Believing.” Mind & Language.
Nichols, S. forthcoming. “On the
Psychological Diversity of Moral Insensitivity.” In O. Vilarroya and L. Valencia
(eds.), Biology of Conflicts and Cooperation. Barcelona: Littera Ediciones.
Nichols, S. forthcoming. “Sentimentalism Naturalized.” In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.) The
Psychology and Biology of Morality.
Nichols, S. and Stich, S.
forthcoming. “Reading One’s Own Mind:
Self-Awareness and Developmental Psychology.”
In New Essays in Philosophy of Language and
Mind, a supplemental volume of the Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, eds. M. Ezcurdia, R. Stainton & C. Viger.
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. “The Folk Psychology of Free Will: Fits and
Starts.” 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.
German, T. and Nichols, S. 2003. “Children’s Counterfactual Inferences about
Long and Short Causal Chains.” Developmental
Science, 6, 514-523.
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-B32.
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.
Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 2003. “Folk Psychology”. In The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, eds. T.
Warfield and S. Stich. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 235-255.
Nichols, S. 2002. “Folk Psychology.” In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London:
Nature Publishing Group, 134-140.
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. “Mindreading and the
Cognitive Architecture underlying Altruistic Motivation.” Mind
& Language, 16, 425-455.
Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2001. “Leggere la propria mente.” Sistemi Intelligenti, XIII(1),
143-170.
Weinberg, J., Nichols, S. and Stich, S.
2001. “Normativity and Epistemic
Intuitions.” Philosophical Topics, 29,
429-460.
Nichols, S. 2000. “The
Mind’s “I” and the Theory of Mind’s
“I”: Introspection and Two Concepts of
Self.” Philosophical Topics, 28,
171-199.
Nichols, S. and Grantham, T. 2000. “Adaptive Complexity and Phenomenal
Consciousness.” Philosophy of
Science, 67, 648-670.
Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2000. “A Cognitive Theory of Pretense.” Cognition,
74, 115-147.
Nichols, S. and Uller, C. 1999. “Explicit
Factuality and Comparative Evidence.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22,
776-777.
Grantham, T. and Nichols, S. 1999. “Evolutionary Psychology: Ultimate
Explanations and Panglossian Predictions.”
In Where Biology Meets Psychology
: Philosophical Essays, ed. V. Hardcastle.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 47-66.
Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 1999. “Pretense in Prediction: Simulation and
Understanding Other Minds.” In Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and
Modalities of Attribution, ed. D. Fisette.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 291-310.
Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 1998. “Rethinking Co-Cognition.” Mind
& Language, 13, 499-512.
Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 1997. “Cognitive Penetrability, Rationality, and
Restricted Simulation.” Mind &
Language, 12, 297-326.
Nichols, S., Stich, S., Leslie, A., and
Klein, D. 1996. “Varieties of Off-Line
Simulation.” In Theories of Theories of Mind, eds. P. Carruthers and P. Smith.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 39-74.
Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 1996. “How Do
Minds Understand Minds? Mental
Simulation vs. Tacit Theory.” In Deconstructing the Mind, Stephen
Stich. New York: Oxford University Press, 136-167.
Nichols, S., Stich, S., and Leslie, A.
1995. “Choice Effects and the
Ineffectiveness of Simulation: Response
to Kuhberger et al.” Mind & Language,
10, no. 4, 437-445.
Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 1995. “Second
Thoughts on Simulation.” In Mental Simulation: Evaluations and
Applications, eds. M. Davies and A. Stone.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 87-108.
Nichols, S. 1993. “Developmental Evidence
and Introspection.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, no.
1, 64-65.
Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 1992. “Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory.” Mind & Language,
7, no. 1, 35-71.
Reprinted
in Science and Knowledge, ed. E.
Villanueva. Ridgeview, 1993.
Reprinted in Folk Psychology: The Theory of
Mind Debate, eds. M. Davies and A. Stone. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, 123-158.
Book reviews:
Nichols, S. 2004. Review of G. Currie and I. Ravenscroft’s Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy
and Psychology. Mind, 113, 329-334.
Nichols, S. 1999. Review of D. Bolton & J. Hill’s Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder. Philosophical Review, 108, 559-562.
Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 1998. “Theory Theory to the Max: A Critical Notice
of Gopnik & Meltzoff’s Words,
Thoughts, and Theories.” Mind & Language, 13, 421-449.
Nichols, S. 1997. Review of W. Lyons, Approaches to Intentionality. Review of Metaphysics, 50, 672-673.
Nichols, S. 1993. Review of New Enquiries into Truth and Interpretation (eds.
Neil Cooper and Pascal Engel). Mind & Language, 8, no. 1, 157-161.
Nichols, S. 1991. Review of J. C. Maloney's The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language.
Mind
& Language, 6, no.
4, 386-389.
Conference
Addresses:
“Compatibilism and Hot Cognition”
Delivered at the UNC/Duke workshop on
Naturalized Ethics
Chapel Hill, NC, February 2005.
Pacific APA, group session for the
Society for Empirical Ethics
San Francisco, March 2005.
“Imagination and Immortality”
Delivered at the Eastern APA, invited
symposium on the imagination,
Boston, December 2004.
“How Emotions Shape Moral Judgment”
Delivered at the World Forum of Cultures
Barcelona, July 2004
“What Children Think about Objectivity”
Delivered at the conference “The
Psychology and Biology of Moral Beliefs and Attitudes”, Dartmouth College, May
2004.
“Introspection and the Attribution of
Agency”
Delivered at the Pacific APA, invited
symposium on introspection,
Pasadena, March 2004.
“Cross-cultural Semantics and the
Methodology of Metaphysics”
With Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, and
Stephen Stich
Delivered at the conference “Folk Concepts:
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives”, Florida State University,
January 2004.
“Just the Imagination: Why Imagining
Doesn’t Behave Like Believing”
Delivered at the American Society for
Aesthetics session on Imagination and Simulation, San Francisco, October 2003.
“Judgments about Moral Objectivity: Experimental Assays”
Delivered at Pacific APA group session of
the Society for Empirical Ethics, San Franciso, March 2003.
“Imagining and Believing: The Promise of
a Single Code”
Delivered at NEH Institute, Art, Mind,
and Cognitive Science, July 2002.
“On the Genealogy of Norms: A Case for
the Role of Emotion in Cultural Evolution”
Delivered at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Nashville, April 2002.
“Norms
with Feeling: The Role of Affect in
Moral Judgment”
Delivered
at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, June 2001.
“A Cognitive Account of Moral Judgment”
Delivered
at Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New York, June 2000.
“Reading
One’s Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of
Self-Awareness”
With Stephen Stich.
Delivered at International Conference on
the Nature of Consciousness, Santa Barbara, November 1998.
Delivered at the Institute for the Study of
Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, March 1999.
“Counterfactuals and Pretense: Possible Worlds in Cognitive Science”
Delivered at the European Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, Lisbon, September 1998.
“Psychological Attribution by Analogy”
Comment on John Greenwood’s “Theoretical
Modeling and the Child’s Theory of Mind”. Delivered at the Eastern APA,
Philadelphia, December, 1997.
“Evolutionary Psychology: Ultimate
Explanations and Panglossian Predictions”
With Todd Grantham. Delivered at ISHPSSB, Seattle, WA, July
1997.
“Theory-Theory Theory”
Comment on Brad Cohen’s “Simulation and
Theory: Redirecting the Debate”.
Delivered at the Eastern APA, New York, December, 1995.
“Simulation and the Ascription of
Intentional States”
With Stephen Stich. Delivered at Conscience et Intentionnalité: modèles et modalités d’attribution,
University of Quebec at Montreal, June, 1995.
“Varieties of Off-Line Simulation”
With Stephen Stich. Delivered at Theories of Theories of Mind, Sheffield University, England, July,
1994.
“Do Content Sentences Need Content?”
Delivered at the Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, April, 1993.
“Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory”
With Stephen Stich. Delivered at Perspectives on Mind, Washington University, St. Louis, December,
1991.
Professional
Activities:
Referee, Mind & Language, 1992-
Referee, Cognition, 1994-
Referee, Oxford University Press, 1998-
Referee, The Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, 2001-
Referee, National Endowment for the
Humanities, 2002
Referee, National Science Foundation,
2002
Referee, Psychology Press, 2002
Referee, MIT Press, 2000
Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1993-
Ad hoc referee for several other journals
including American Philosophical Quarterly, Animal Cognition, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, European
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal
of Consciousness Studies, Mind & Society, Nature Reviews
Neuroscience, Nous, Philosophical
Explorations, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Psychological
Science, Synthese, Trends in
Cognitive Sciences
Program committee for the American
Society for Aesthetics, 2004.
Program committee for the American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2004-2006.
Grants
and Awards:
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Stanton Award, Society for Philosophy
& Psychology Harry Lightsey Chair in Humanities NEH Summer Institute on “Art, Mind, and Cognitive Science”, University of Maryland NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship Visiting Fellow Grant Research Group on Evolution and Higher
Cognition Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University Research Grant Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee College of Charleston NEH/NSF Summer Institute on “Human
Nature: Integrating Nature and Nurture”, Gruter Institute for Law and
Behavioral Research, Dartmouth College Continuous Study Grant College of
Charleston Research & Development College of Charleston Research &
Development Grant Rutgers University Excellence
Fellowship Robert M. Golden Award for Honors
Thesis in Philosophy Stanford University |
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