Recent publications by topic

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.

epistemology

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

essentialism

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

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

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

experimental philosophy overviews

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

explanation

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

free will and moral responsibility

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

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

Indian philosophy of mind

Berryman, K., Chadha, M. & Nichols, S. (2023). Vows without a self. Philosophical and Phenomenological Research.

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

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.

metaethics

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

moral emotions

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

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

moral learning

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

moral judgment

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.

property

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.

reference

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

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

self

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.