Full Professor | Department of Philosophy | California State University, Fullerton
Main goals in this area of my research are to bring coherence and completeness to sets of explanations that purport to explain the uniqueness of China and its people and, in the process, use cultural transmission theory to show the causal power of Confucian culture.
Read MoreMy metaphilosophical and methodological research is devoted to providing concrete demonstrations that overcome three problems that still beset answering interdisciplinary big questions, or pioneering new methods that chart a way through them.
Read MoreText analytics represents a way of approaching cross-disciplinary research questions with a scientific or data-driven method. In an attempt to better understand the methods and limitations of text analytics research, my work in this area has ranged over a few different issues and languages.
Read MoreMy hope is to demonstrate to an interdisciplinary field of religious researchers techniques that can identify and ferret out biases that often block discovery and dissemination of knowledge about religion and philosophy of religion.
Read MoreMy research interests in 18th-century European thought, specifically in the Scottish Enlightenment, surround philosophical issues concerned with the developing conception of the mind, its function, and the scientific methods needed to study it.
Read MoreNichols, R. Forthcoming in Evolutionary Psychological Science
Nichols, R., Slingerland, E., Nielbo, K. L., Kirby, P., & Logan, C. (2020). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2020.1742778
Nichols, R., Slingerland, E., Nielbo, K., Bergeton, U., Logan, C., & Kleinman, S. (2018). The Journal of Asian Studies, 77(1), 19-57. DOI: 10.1017/S0021911817000973
Nichols, R. (2014). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 82(4), 970–1009. DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfu033
Nichols, R., Lynn, J., & Purzycki, B.G. (2014). Scientific Study of Literature, 4(1), 25–45. DOI: 10.1075/ssol.4.1.02nic
Wright, J., & Nichols, R. (2014). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 14, 115–137. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12342112
Nichols, R. (2013). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 13(3-4), 201–230. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12342092
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Nichols, R. (2015). Dao 14: 499-520. DOI: 10.1007/s11712-015-9464-8