Dr Nicholas Shea

Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College
Faculty Research Fellow in Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests

Philosophy of psychology and cognitive science
Mental representation
Philosophy of mind

Career & Education

PhD, King’s College, London

Nicholas Shea

Book

On Millikan, Wadsworth, 2004

Articles

Shea, N. 'Millikan's Isomorphism Requirement', for Millikan and Her Critics, D. Ryder (ed.), Blackwell [draft]

Shea, N. and Bayne, T. (forthcoming), ‘The Vegetative State and the Science of Consciousness’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science [pre-print pdf]

Shea, N. and Heyes, C. (2009) ‘Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick’, Biology & Philosophy [open access pdf] [link]

Shea, N., (2009) ‘Imitation as an inheritance system’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2429-2443 [pre-print pdf] [link]

Shea, N., Krug, K. and Tobler, P.N., (2008) ‘Conceptual representations in goal-directed decision making’, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(4), 418-428 [published pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2007) ‘Consumers Need Information: supplementing teleosemantics with an input condition’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 75(2), 404-435 [pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2007) ‘Content and Its Vehicles in Connectionist Systems’, Mind & Language, 22(3), 246-269 [pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2007) ‘Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems’ Biology and Philosophy, 22, 313-331 [pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2006) ‘Millikan’s Contribution to Materialist Philosophy of Mind’ (in French translation) Matière Première, Vol. 1, Feb 2006, pp. 127-156.

Shea, N. (2003) ‘Does Externalism Entail the Anomalism of the Mental?’, Philosophical Quarterly, 53, 201–213 [pdf] [link] [Jstor]