Shaun Nichols

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Nichols, S.

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bio Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Cognitive Sciences at

Cornell University. He works in philosophy of cognitive science, and his research concerns the psychological foundations of philosophical thought, in particular the acquisition of philosophically significant concepts and distinctions, especially in the domain of morality. He is the author of Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning (2021), Bound: Essays on Free Will and Responsibility (2015), Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment (2004), and Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretense, Self-awareness and Understanding Other Minds (with Steven Stich, 2003), and editor of Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (with Tania Lombrozo and Joshua Knobe, 3 vols. 2015-2020), Experimental Philosophy (2 vol., with Joshua Knobe, 2008, 2013), The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretense, Possibility, and Fiction (2006), all published by Oxford University Press, and of La philosophie experimentale (with Florian Cova, Julien Dutant, Edouard Machery, Joshua Knobe, and Eddie Nahmias, Paris: Vuibert, 2012), and Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings (with Thomas Nadelhoffer and Eddie Nahmias, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). (Source: Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality, xv)

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