Shaun Nichols is employed as a professor in the Philosophy department at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD. in Philosophy from Rutgers in 1992 and his BA in Philosophy from Stanford. His early work was concerned primarily with questions in theory of mind. Subsequently, he became one of the major figures in the experimental philosophy movement and was awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2005. He i...
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Shaun Nichols is employed as a professor in the Philosophy department at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD. in Philosophy from Rutgers in 1992 and his BA in Philosophy from Stanford. His early work was concerned primarily with questions in theory of mind. Subsequently, he became one of the major figures in the experimental philosophy movement and was awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2005. He is also currently a member of the Experimental Philosophy Lab at the University of Arizona.
Nichols current research projects are in experimental philosophy, cultural evolution, free will, and cognitive theories of the imagination.
In his work within experimental philosophy, Nichols has addressed questions about cross-cultural differences, free will, intentional action, the nature of moral judgment, and a number of other key philosophical concepts.
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