Ph.D., 2002, The Ohio State University

Research Areas: Early Modern Philosophy & Philosophy of Religion

Favorite Courses: Introduction to Philosophy through Science Fiction, Rationalism and Empiricism

Selected Publications: Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception. (Oxford University Press, 2007). http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199276912

"Natural Philosophy and Its Limits in the Scottish Enlightenment," The Monist, 90 (forthcoming).

"Why is the History of Philosophy Worth our Study?" Metaphilosophy 37 (2006): 34-52. 
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/meta/37/1

 "Moral Motivation and Christian Theism," Faith and Philosophy 21 (2004): 175-194.

"Learning and Conceptual Content in Reid's Theory of Perception," The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2002): 49-79.

"Reid on Fictional Objects and the Way of Ideas," The Philosophical Quarterly 52 (2002): 582-601. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid, S. Read, ed. (Blackwell 2003).

"Space, Individuation and the Identity of Indiscernibles: Leibniz's Triumph Over Strawson," Studia Leibnitiana 31 (1999): 181-195.

 "Actions, Their Effects, and Preventable Evil," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 46 (1999): 127-145.

Email: rnichols@fullerton.edu
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