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Berryman, K., Chadha, M. & Nichols, S. (forthcoming). Vows without a self. Philosophical and Phenomenological Research. 

Dranseika, V., Nichols, S. & Strohminger, N. (2023). Which kind of sameness? Disambiguating two senses of identity with a novel linguistic task. Cognition. 

Nichols, S. (2023). Free will and reference. In J. Campbell (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Free Will.

Nichols, S., & Thrasher, J. (2023). Ownership and convention. Cognition, 237, 105454.

Nichols, S. & Thrasher, J. (2023).  What does labor mixing get you? In M. Lindauer (ed.) Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. Bloomsbury.

Partington, S., Vesga, A., & Nichols, S. (2023). No brute facts: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in ordinary thought. Cognition, 238, 105479.

Partington, S., Nichols, S., & Kushnir, T. (2023). Rational learners and parochial norms. Cognition, 233, 105366.

Chadha, M., & Nichols, S. (2022). Self-control without a self. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1-18. 

Kamtekar, R., & Nichols, S. (2022). Two Concepts of Cause in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy. Phronesis, 67(4), 383-407.

Anderson, R. A., Kamtekar, R., Nichols, S., & Pizarro, D. A. (2021). “False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character. Cognition, 214, 104770.

Nichols, S. (2021). The case for moral empiricism. Analysis. 81 (3):549-567.

Rose, D., Sievers, E., & Nichols, S. (2021). Cause and burn. Cognition.

Sytsma, J., Muldoon, R., & Nichols, S. (2021). The meta-wisdom of crowds. Synthese, 199(3), 11051-11074.

Ayars, A., & Nichols, S. (2020). Rational learners and metaethics: Universalism, relativism, and evidence from consensus. Mind & Language.

Chadha, M. & Nichols, S. (2020). Experiential unity without a self: A Buddhist response to the case of synchronic synthesis. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Chadha, M. & Nichols, S. (2019).  Self-conscious emotions without a self. Philosopher’s Imprint. 

Kamtekar, R. & Nichols, S. (2019). Agent regret and accidental agency. Midwest Studies in Philosophy.

Millhouse, T., Ayars, A., & Nichols, S. (2019). Learnability and moral nativism: exploring wilde rules. In J. Suikkanen and A. Kauppinen (eds.), Methodology and Moral Philosophy. Routledge, 73-89.

Nichols, S. (2019). Experimental philosophy and statistical learning. In Eugen Fischer and Mark Curtis (eds.). Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury, 13-42. 

Nichols, S. (2019). Moral learning. In A. Zimmerman, K. Jones, and M. Timmons (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology, pp. 124-138.

Rose, D., & Nichols, S. (2019). From punishment to universalism. Mind & Language, 34(1), 59-72. 

Rose, D., & Nichols, S. (2019). Teleological essentialism. Cognitive science, 43(4), e12725.

Nichols, S. (2018). The Wrong and the bad. In K. Gray & J. Graham (eds.) Atlas of Moral Psychology. Guilford Press, pp. 40-48.

Blanchard, T., Lombrozo, T., & Nichols, S. (2018). Bayesian Occam's razor is a razor of the people. Cognitive science, 42(4), 1345-1359. 

Garfield, J., Nichols, S., & Strohminger, N. (2018). Episodic memory and oneness. In PJ Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, V. Harrison, H. Sarkissian, & E. Schwitzgebel (eds.), The Oneness Hypothesis in Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology. Columbia University Press.

Nichols, S., & Gaus, J. (2018). Unspoken Rules: Resolving Underdetermination With Closure Principles. Cognitive science, 42(8), 2735-2756.

Nichols, S., & Pinillos, N. Á. (2018). Skepticism and the acquisition of “knowledge”. Mind & Language, 33(4), 397-414. 

Nichols, S., Strohminger, N., Rai, A., & Garfield, J. (2018). Death and the self. Cognitive science, 42, 314-332. 

Ayars, A., & Nichols, S. (2017). Moral empiricism and the bias for act-based rules. Cognition, 167, 11-24.

Gaus, G., & Nichols, S. (2017). Moral learning in the open society: the theory and practice of natural liberty. Social Philosophy and Policy, 34(1), 79-101. 

Knobe, J. & Nichols, S. (2017). Experimental Philosophy.  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  

Nichols, S. (2017). The essence of mentalistic agents. Synthese, 194(3), 809-825.

Nichols, S. (2017). Memory and personal identity. In S. Bernecker & M. Kourken (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory,169-179. 

Nichols, S. (2017). The rationality of psychological essentialism. In D. Rose (ed.) Experimental Metaphysics. Bloomsbury, 117-134.

Nichols, S. (2017). Replies to Kane, McCormick, and Vargas. Philosophical Studies, 174(10), 2511-2523.

Nichols, S. & Samuels, R. (2017). Bayesian psychology and human rationality. In T. Hung and T. Lane (eds.). Rationality: Constraints and Contexts, Elsevier.

Prinz, J. & Nichols, S. (2017). Diachronic identity and the moral self. In J. Kiverstein (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Social Mind, 449-464.

Horgan, T. & Nichols, S. (2016). The Zero Point and I. In S. Miguens, G. Preyer, and C. Morando (eds.) Pre-reflective Consciousness. Routledge.

Nichols, S., Kumar, S., Lopez, T., Ayars, A., & Chan, H. Y. (2016). Rational learners and moral rules. Mind & Language, 31(5), 530-554.

Nichols, S., Pinillos, N. A., & Mallon, R. (2016). Ambiguous reference. Mind, 125(497), 145-175. 

Rose, D., Buckwalter, W., & Nichols, S. (2017). Neuroscientific prediction and the intrusion of intuitive metaphysics. Cognitive science, 41(2), 482-502. 

Strohminger, N., & Nichols, S. (2015). Neurodegeneration and identity. Psychological Science, 26(9), 1469-1479. 

Fiala, B., Arico, A. and Nichols, S. (2014). You, Robot. In E. Machery & E. O’Neill (eds.), Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy. Routledge, 31-47.

Nichols, S. (2014). The Episodic Sense Of Self. In J. D’Arms and D. Jacobson (eds.) Moral Psychology and Human Agency. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Nichols, S. (2014). Process debunking and ethics. Ethics, 124(4), 727-749.

Nichols, S., Timmons, M., and Lopez, T. (2014). Ethical Conservatism And The Psychology Of Moral Luck. In M. Christen, J. Fischer, M. Huppenbauer, C. Tanner, & C. van Schaik (eds.) Empirically Informed Ethics. Springer, 159-176. 

Strohminger, N., & Nichols, S. (2014). The essential moral self. Cognition, 131(1), 159-171.

Tierney, H., Howard, C., Kumar, V., Kvaran, T. & Nichols, S. (2014).  How many of us are there? In J. Sytsma (ed.) Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind. Continuum Press, 181-202.

Bartels, D. M., Kvaran, T., & Nichols, S. (2013). Selfless giving. Cognition, 129(2), 392-403.

Nadelhoffer, T., Heshmati, S., Kaplan, D., & Nichols, S. (2013). Folk retributivism and the communication confound. Economics & Philosophy, 29(2), 235-261.

Nichols, S. (2013). Brute retributivism. In T. Nadelhoffer (ed.) The Future of Punishment. New York: Oxford University Press, 25-47.

Nichols, S. (2013). Free will and error. In G. Caruso, ed. Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 203-218.

Rose, D., & Nichols, S. (2013). The lesson of bypassing. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4(4), 599-619.

Fiala, B., Arico, A., and Nichols, S. (2012). On the psychological origins of dualism: dual-process cognition and the explanatory gap. In E. Slingerland & M. Collard (eds.)  Creating Consilience: Issues and Case Studies in the Integration of the Sciences and Humanities. Oxford University Press, 88-109. 

Klein, S. and Nichols, S. (2012).  Memory and the Sense of Personal Identity. Mind, 121 (483): 677-702.

Nichols, S. (2012). The indeterminist intuition: Source and status. The Monist, 95(2), 290-307. 

Phelan, M., Arico, A., & Nichols, S. (2013). Thinking things and feeling things: On an alleged discontinuity in folk metaphysics of mind. Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, 12(4), 703-725. 

Arico, A., Fiala, B., Goldberg, R. F., & Nichols, S. (2011). The folk psychology of consciousness. Mind & Language, 26(3), 327-352. 

Freiman, C., & Nichols, S. (2011). Is desert in the details?. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82(1), 121-133.

Knobe, J. and Nichols, S. (2011).  Free will and the bounds of the self. In R. Kane (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Free Will.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 530-554. 

Kozuch, B., & Nichols, S. (2011). Awareness of Unawareness Folk Psychology and Introspective Transparency. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(11-12), 135-160.

Mallon, R., & Nichols, S. (2011). Dual processes and moral rules. Emotion Review, 3(3), 284-285. 

Nichols, S. (2011). Experimental philosophy and the problem of free will. science, 331(6023), 1401-1403. 

Cohen, J., & Nichols, S. (2010). Colours, colour relationalism and the deliverances of introspection. Analysis, 70(2), 218-228. 

Mallon, R. and Nichols, S. (2010).  Rules.  In J. Doris (ed.) Moral Psychology Handbook.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 297-320. 

Nichols, S. (2010). Emotions, norms, and the genealogy of fairness. politics, philosophy & economics, 9(3), 275-296.

Nichols, S., & Bruno, M. (2010). Intuitions about personal identity: An empirical study. Philosophical Psychology, 23(3), 293-312. 

Prinz, J. and Nichols, S. (2010). Moral emotions. In J. Doris (ed.) Moral Psychology Handbook.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 111-148. 

Sarkissian, H., Chatterjee, A., De Brigard, F., Knobe, J., Nichols, S., & Sirker, S. (2010). Is belief in free will a cultural universal?. Mind & Language, 25(3), 346-358.

Young, L., Nichols, S., & Saxe, R. (2010). Investigating the neural and cognitive basis of moral luck: It’s not what you do but what you know. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1(3), 333-349.

Fiala, B., & Nichols, S. (2009). Confabulation, confidence, and introspection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(2), 144-145. 

Lopez, T., Zamzow, J., Gill, M., & Nichols, S. (2009). Side constraints and the structure of commonsense ethics. Philosophical Perspectives, 23(1), 305-319.

Nichols, S. (2009). The propositional imagination. In P. Calvo & J. Symons (eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, 360-369.

Zamzow, J. L., & Nichols, S. (2009). Variations in ethical intuitions. Philosophical Issues, 19(1), 368-388.

Gill, M. B., & Nichols, S. (2008). Sentimentalist pluralism: Moral psychology and philosophical ethics. Philosophical Issues, 18(1), 143-163. 

Knobe, J. and Nichols, S. (2008). An experimental philosophy manifesto. In Knobe and Nichols (eds.) Experimental Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nichols, S. (2008). How can psychology contribute to the free will debate?  In J. Baer, J. Kaufman, & R. Baumeister (eds.) Are We Free? Oxford University Press, 10-31.

Nichols, S. (2008). Imagination and the I. Mind & Language, 23(5), 518-535.

Nichols, S. (2008).  Moral rationalism and empirical immunity.  In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.) Moral Psychology, vol. 3: The Neuroscience of Morality.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 395-407.

Nichols, S. (2008). Sentiment, intention, and disagreement: replies to Blair & D’Arms.  In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.) The Psychology and Biology of Morality.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Nichols, S. (2008). Sentimentalism naturalized.  In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.) The Psychology and Biology of Morality.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Nichols, S., & Vargas, M. (2007). How to be fair to psychopaths. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 14(2), 153-155.

Roskies, A. L., & Nichols, S. (2008). Bringing moral responsibility down to earth. The Journal of philosophy, 105(7), 371-388. 

Vargas, M., & Nichols, S. (2007). Psychopaths and moral knowledge. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 14(2), 157-162. 

Nichols, S. (2007). After incompatibilism: A naturalistic defense of the reactive attitudes. Philosophical Perspectives, 21, 405-428. 

Nichols, S. (2007). Imagination and immortality: thinking of me. Synthese, 159(2), 215-233.

Nichols, S. (2007). On The Psychological Diversity Of Moral Insensitivity.  In O. Vilarroya and L. Valencia (eds.), Biology of Conflicts and Cooperation.  Barcelona: Littera Ediciones. 

Nichols, S. (2007). The rise of compatibilism: A case study in the quantitative history of philosophy. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 31(1), 260.

Nichols, S., & Knobe, J. (2007). Moral responsibility and determinism: The cognitive science of folk intuitions. Nous, 41(4), 663-685.

Nichols, S., & Ulatowski, J. (2007). Intuitions and individual differences: The Knobe effect revisited. Mind & Language, 22(4), 346-365.

Nichols, S. (2006). Folk intuitions on free will. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6(1-2), 57-86.

Nichols, S. (2006). Free will and the folk: Responses to commentators. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6(1/2), 305-20. 

Nichols, S. (2006). Imaginative blocks and impossibility: an essay in modal psychology. In S. Nichols (ed.) The Architecture of the Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 237-255.

Nichols, S. (2006). Introduction. In S. Nichols (ed.) The Architecture of the Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-16.

Nichols, S. (2006). Just the imagination: Why imagining doesn’t behave like believing. Mind & Language, 21(4), 459-474.

Nichols, S., & Mallon, R. (2006). Moral dilemmas and moral rules. Cognition, 100(3), 530-542.

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, 353-369.

Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., & Stich, S. P. (2004). Semantics, cross-cultural style. Cognition, 92(3), B1-B12.

Nichols, S. (2004). After objectivity: An empirical study of moral judgment. Philosophical Psychology, 17(1), 3-26.

Nichols, S. (2004). Folk concepts and intuitions: From philosophy to cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(11), 514-518.

Nichols, S. (2004). The folk psychology of free will: Fits and starts. Mind & Language, 19(5), 473-502.

Nichols, S. (2004). Imagining and believing: The promise of a single code. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 62(2), 129-139.

Nichols, S. (2004). Is religion what we want? Motivation and the cultural transmission of religious representations. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4(2), 347-371.

Nichols, S. (2004).  Review of G. Currie and I. Ravenscroft’s Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology

German, T. P., & Nichols, S. (2003). Children's counterfactual inferences about long and short causal chains. Developmental Science, 6(5), 514-523.

Nichols, S. (2003). Imagination and the puzzles of iteration. Analysis, 63(3), 182-187.

Nichols, S., & Folds-Bennett, T. (2003). Are children moral objectivists? Children's judgments about moral and response-dependent properties. Cognition, 90(2), B23-B32.

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(2), 285-303.

Nichols, S. (2002). Norms with feeling: Towards a psychological account of moral judgment. Cognition, 84(2), 221-236. 

Nichols, S. (2002). On the genealogy of norms: A case for the role of emotion in cultural evolution. Philosophy of Science, 69(2), 234-255.

Nichols, S. (2001). Mindreading and the cognitive architecture underlying altruistic motivation. Mind & language, 16(4), 425-455.

Nichols, S. (2000). The mind’s “I” and the Theory of Mind’s “I”: Introspection and two concepts of self. Philosophical Topics, 28(2), 171-199.

Nichols, S., & Grantham, T. (2000). Adaptive complexity and phenomenal consciousness. Philosophy of science, 67(4), 648-670.

Nichols, S., & Stich, S. (2000). A cognitive theory of pretense. Cognition, 74(2), 115-147.