Shaun Nichols

Dados Biográficos

ID5963699
NOMEShaun Nichols
PRENOMESShaun
SOBRENOMENichols
ASSINATURANICHOLS S
AFILIAÇÕESCornell University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES29
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1996
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Praise Is for Actions That Are Neither Expected nor Required

    Open AccessRajen A Anderson, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2026

    In six studies, we examined two foundational questions about moral praise. First, what makes an action praiseworthy? In Study 1, participants reported that actions that exceed duties (compared with dutiful actions) deserve greater praise and are perceived as less likely to happen. Second, what do observers infer from praise? Praise may communicate information about local norms. In Study 2, we found that—in general—participants expect praise to in…

  • On the Ontology of Composites in Abhidharma Buddhism

    Open AccessMonima Chadha, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2026

    Abhidharma Buddhism maintains that the only ultimately real ( paramārtha ) entities in the universe are dharmas , which are simples. What then is the ontological status of composites on this theory? One possibility is that Abhidharma Buddhists deny the reality of composites. We argue, however, that Abhidharma Buddhists affirm the reality of some composites, based on the causal efficacy of the composites. This depends on distinguishing between two…

  • How to make people do things with words

    Open AccessHerbert I Schiller, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLENoûs2025

    Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning. We defend an alternative “Spinozan” view about how instructions—specifically those performed with imperative sentences —might give rise to a motivation to a…

  • The do-gooder dilemma

    Open AccessJustin T Richardson, Jerry Richardson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2025Referências: 2

  • Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy

    Joshua Knobe, Shaun NicholsBOOKOxford Studies in Experimental…2024

    The fifth volume of Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy showcases the growing depth and breadth of the field. The essays here advance debates in several areas of experimental philosophy, including the measurement of beliefs about free will and moral objectivism, as well as methodological issues at the core of both experimental philosophy and philosophy more generally. This volume also includes work on new topics in experimental philosophy: …

  • Gratitude Without a Self

    Open AccessMonima Chadha, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLEJournal of Confucian Philosophy…2023

    Western psychology primarily studies human emotions via physiological reactions to external stimuli. Research suggests that cultural variations lead East Asians and Western-heritage individuals to experience distinct emotional patterns beyond bodily responses. A more thorough understanding of affect, involving culturally influenced emotions, remains unexplored in cross-cultural contexts. Influenced by Confucianism, East Asian cultures show unique…

  • No brute facts

    Open AccessScott Partington, Alejandro Vesga et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) has been an influential thesis since the earliest stages of western philosophy. According to a simple version of the PSR, for every fact, there must be an explanation of that fact. In the present research, we investigate whether people presuppose a PSR-like principle in ordinary judgment. Across five studies (N = 1121 in total, U.S., Prolific), we find that participants consistently make judgments that con…

  • Ownership and convention

    Open AccessShaun Nichol, Shaun Nichols et al.ARTICLECognition2023

  • Which kind of sameness? Disambiguating two senses of identity with a novel linguistic task

    Open AccessVilius Dranseika, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLECognition2023

  • Rational learners and parochial norms

    Open AccessScott Partington, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    Parochial norms are narrow in social scope, meaning they apply to certain groups but not to others. Accounts of norm acquisition typically invoke tribal biases: from an early age, people assume a group's behavioral regularities are prescribed and bounded by mere group membership. However, another possibility is rational learning: given the available evidence, people infer the social scope of norms in statistically appropriate ways. With this pape…

  • Self-Control without a Self

    Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLEAustralasian Journal of Philosophy2023

    Self-control is essential to the Buddhist soteriological project, but it is not immediately clear how we can make sense of it in light of the doctrine of no-self. Exercising control over our actions, thoughts, volitions, and emotions seems to presuppose a conception of self and agency that is not available to the Buddhist. Thus, there seems to be a fundamental mismatch in the practical instructions for exercising control in the Buddhist texts and…

  • “False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character

    Open AccessRajen A Anderson, Rachana Kamtekar et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Cause and burn

    Open AccessDavid Rose, Eric Sievers et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Experiential Unity without a Self

    Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLEAustralasian Journal of Philosophy2021

    The manifest fact of experiential unity—namely, that a single experience often seems to be composed of multiple features and multiple objects—was lodged as a key objection to the Buddhist no-self view by Nyāya philosophers in the classical Indian tradition. We revisit the Nyāya-Buddhist debate on this issue. The early Nyāya experiential unity arguments depend on diachronic unification of experiences in memory, but later Nyāya philosophers explici…

  • The meta-wisdom of crowds

    Open AccessJustin Sytsma, Ryan Muldoon et al.ARTICLESynthese2021Referências: 13

  • Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Volume 4

    Shaun Nichol, Tania Lombrozo et al.BOOKOxford Studies in Experimental…2021

  • The essence of mentalistic agents

    Open AccessShaun Nichol, Shaun NicholsARTICLESynthese2017Referências: 43

  • The essential moral self

    Open AccessNina Strohminger, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLECognition2014

  • You, Robot

    Brian Fiala, Adam Arico et al.CHAPTERCurrent Controversies in…2014

  • Experimental Philosophy

    Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichol et al.BOOKExperimental Philosophy2013

  • Free Will and the Bounds of the Self

    Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichol et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of free will2012

    This article appeals to experimental studies in order to elucidate the reactions of ordinary persons to the picture of the human mind that is prevalent in contemporary cognitive science. According to this prevalent cognitive-scientific picture, the mind is made up of states and processes that interact according to certain rules to generate specific behaviors. The discussion argues that this picture is disturbing to ordinary persons, who reason th…

  • Experimental Philosophy

    Wesley Buckwalter, Joshua Knobe et al.CHAPTERAdam Smith2012

  • Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?

    Open AccessHagop Sarkissian, Amita Chatterjee et al.ARTICLEMind & Language2010

    Recent experimental research has revealed surprising patterns in people's intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. One limitation of this research, however, is that it has been conducted exclusively on people from Western cultures. The present paper extends previous research by presenting a cross-cultural study examining intuitions about free will and moral responsibility in subjects from the United States, Hong Kong, India and Colomb…

  • Experimental philosophy

    Joshua Knobe, Shaun NicholsBOOKExperimental Philosophy2008

  • An Experimental Philosophy Manifesto

    Joshua Knobe, Shaun S Nichols et al.CHAPTERExperimental Philosophy2008

    It used to be a commonplace that the discipline of philosophy was deeply concerned with questions about the human condition. Philosophers thought about human beings and how their minds worked. They took an interest in reason and passion, culture and innate ideas, the origins of people’s moral and religious beliefs. On this traditional conception, it wasn’t particularly important to keep philosophy clearly distinct from psychology, history, or pol…