John M. Doris

Doris is the Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, SC Johnson College of Business and Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences. He works at the intersection of cognitive science, moral psychology, and philosophical ethics, and has authored and co-authored papers for such venues as Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Bioethics, Cognition, Scientific American, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002), Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford, 2015), and Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality (Oxford, 2022). With his colleagues in the Moral Psychology Research Group, he wrote and edited The Moral Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010) and with Manuel Vargas, edited The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022). Doris has been awarded fellowships from Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities; Princeton’s University Center for Human Values (twice); the National Humanities Center (twice); the American Council of Learned Societies; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; the National Endowment for the Humanities (three times); and is a winner of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s Stanton Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary research. His pedagogy has been recognized with awards at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Shaun Nichols

Nichols is Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy and Director of Cognitive Science at Cornell University. He works in philosophy and cognitive science and his research concerns the psychological underpinnings of philosophical thought. He is the author of Sentimental Rules, Bound: Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, and Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning, (Oxford University Press) as well as over 100 articles in academic journals. He is co-editor (with Joshua Knobe) of Experimental Philosophy, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 and of Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy.  Nichols has received funding from several granting bodies, including the National Endowment for The Humanities, the Templeton Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. In 2018, he served as president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. The Google Scholar page for Professor Nichols can be found here.

Laura Niemi

Niemi is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University in the College of Arts and Sciences; and cross-appointed in the Dyson School, at the SC Johnson College of Business. She is a member of the Social and Personality Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Management fields; and is an affiliate of the Philosophy Department. Niemi earned her PhD in 2015 from Boston College, advised by Liane Young. She completed two postdoctoral research fellowships at Harvard, on the psycholinguistics of morality, with co-PIs Steven Pinker and Jesse Snedeker (NSF funded) and Duke, in the philosophy and cognitive neuroscience of social epistemology, with advisors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Felipe De Brigard (Templeton/Duke funded). Niemi was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto before moving her Applied Moral Psychology lab to Cornell in 2020. Niemi’s research uses multiple methods including text analyses, experiments, surveys, and neuroscience, typically in collaboration with philosophers and other psychologists. Her basic research contributes to the literature on causal cognition, moral judgment, and the interface of language and moral cognition. Her applied research addresses ethical issues and social problems, including victim blame, stigma, and partisan biases in causal and numerical cognition. Niemi is committed to supporting the growth of interdisciplinary, empirical study of morality in undergraduate and graduate education, as well as public engagement in the scientific study of moral psychology. The Google Scholar page for Professor Niemi can be found here.