Shaun Nichols

Shaun Nichols (born 7 February 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at Cornell University specializing in the philosophy of cognitive sciences, moral psychology and philosophy of mind. Nichols received his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University in 1992 under the supervision of Stephen Stich and his BA in philosophy from Stanford University. He is a leading contributor to experimental philosophy and was awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2005. He taught at the College of Charleston, University of Arizona and, since 2019, Cornell University. His early work was concerned primarily with questions in the theory of mind and the nature of imagination. Nichols's current research projects are in experimental philosophy, moral psychology, bayesian cognitive science, cultural evolution, free will, and the self.