#  Shaun Nichols 

Visiting Professor in Philosophy

 

 

 



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 location\_on Emerson 302 

 email <shaunnichols@fas.harvard.edu> 

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My research is primarily on the psychological underpinnings of philosophical thought. Recent topics include the Principle of Sufficient Reason, judgments of personal identity, private property, and the emergence of norms.