Online papers

Cultural evolution

Free will and moral responsibility

Imagination

Introspection

Intuitions

Mindreading

Moral psychology

 

Cultural evolution

Nichols, S. forthcoming. The Rise of Compatibilism: A Case Study in the Quantitative History of Philosophy. Midwest Studies.

Nichols, S. 2004. Is Religion What We Want? Motivation and the Cultural Transmission of Religious Representations. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4, 347-371.

Nichols, S. 2002. On the Genealogy of Norms: A Case for the Role of Emotion in Cultural Evolution. Philosophy of Science, 69, 234-255.

 

Free will and moral responsibility

Nichols, S. forthcoming. After Incompatibilism: A Naturalistic Defense of the Reactive Attitudes. Philosophical Perspectives.

Nichols, S. forthcoming. How Can Psychology Contribute to the Free Will Debate? In J. Baer, J. Kaufman, & R. Baumeister (eds.) Psychology and Free Will, Oxford University Press.

Nichols, S. and Knobe, J. forthcoming. Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions. Nous.

Nichols, S. 2006. Folk Intuitions about Free Will. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6.

Nichols, S. 2006. Free Will and the Folk: Responses to Commentators. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6.

Nichols, S. 2004. Folk Psychology of Free Will. Mind & Language, 19, 473-502.

 

Imagination

Nichols, S. forthcoming. Imagination and Immortality: Thinking of Me. Synthese.

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.

Nichols, S. 2006. Just the Imagination: Why Imagining Doesn't Behave Like Believing. Mind & Language, 21, 459-474.

Nichols, S. 2004. Review of Currie & Ravenscroft Recreative Imagination. Mind, 113, 329-334.

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.

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 Stich, S. 2000. A Cognitive Theory of Pretense. Cognition, 74, 115-147.

 

Introspection

Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2005. 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.

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. 2001. The Mind's 'I' and the Theory of Mind's 'I': Introspection and Two Concepts of Self. Philosophical Topics, 28, 171-199.

 

Intuitions

Nichols, S. and Ulatowski, J. forthcoming. Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited. Mind & Language.

Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. 2004. Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style. Cognition, 92, B1-B12.

Nichols, S. 2004. Folk Concepts and Intuitions: From Philosophy to Cognitive Science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Nichols, S., Stich, S., and Weinberg, J. 2003. Metaskepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology. In The Skeptics, ed. S. Luper. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 227-247.

Weinberg, J., Nichols, S. and Stich, S. 2001. Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions, Philosophical Topics, 29, 429-460.

 

Mindreading

Nichols, S. forthcoming. Mindreading and the Philosophy of Mind. In J. Prinz (ed.) The Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nichols, S. 2002. Folk Psychology. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Publishing Group, 134-140.

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.

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.

Stich, S. and Nichols, S. 1992. Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory. Mind & Language, 7, no. 1, 35-71.

 

Moral psychology

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

Nichols, S. forthcoming. Moral Rationalism and Empirical Immunity. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.) The Psychology and Biology of Morality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Nichols, S. 2007. On the Psychological Diversity of Moral Insensitivity. In O. Vilarroya & F. Argimon (eds.) Social Brain Matters. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Nichols, S. and Mallon, R. 2006. Moral Dilemmas and Moral Rules. Cognition.

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.

Nichols, S. 2004. After Objectivity: An Empirical Study of Moral Judgment. Philosophical Psychology, 17, 5-28.

Nichols, S. and Folds-Bennett, T. 2003. Are Children Moral Objectivists? Children's Judgments about Moral and Response-Dependent Properties. Cognition, 90, B23-32.

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. 2001. Mindreading and the Cognitive Architecture underlying Altruistic Motivation, Mind & Language, 16, 425-455.