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William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, Emory University

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Articles: Cognitive Foundations of Religions

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August 04, 2023

Darwinian Bases of Religious Meaning:  Interactionism, General Interpretive Theories, and 6E Cognitive Science (PDF)→

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R.N. McCauley (2023). Journal of Cognition and Culture 23 (1-2), 1-27.

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May 09, 2022

Recent Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion (PDF)→

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Neuroscience, Religious Experience, and the Confluence of Cognitive and Evolutionary Research

R.N. McCauley (2020). Zygon 55(1), 97-124.

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May 09, 2022

Domesticating Scrupulosity (book chapter) [PDF]→

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R.N. McCauley and G. Graham (2020). The Natural Method: Ethics, Mind, and Self. T. Polger, E. Nahmias, and W. Zhao (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 45-77.

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May 09, 2022

Theory of Mind, Religiosity, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (PDF)→

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A Review of Empirical Evidence Bearing on Three Hypotheses

R.N. McCauley and G. Graham (2019). Journal of Cognition and Culture 19(5), 411-431.

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June 01, 2016

Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion (book chapter) [PDF]→

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R.N. McCauley (2016). Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. K. Clark (ed.). Oxford:  Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 462-480.

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July 15, 2015

La Cognición Natural, la Ciencia Profesional y la Religión Popular (book chapter) (PDF)→

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Robert N. McCauley (2015). Mesa Redonda 8, 22-46.

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July 14, 2015

Philosophical Naturalism and the Cognitive Science of Religion→

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R.N. McCauley (2015). Religion Bulletin (portal of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion), July 13, 2015.

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March 20, 2014

Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion (book chapter) (PDF)→

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Robert N. McCauley (in press). Reason and Belief in Societies of Knowledge. C. Salazar and J. Bestard (eds.). Oxford: Berghahn Books.

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March 20, 2014

Putting Religious Ritual in its Place (book chapter) (PDF)→

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On Some Ways Humans’ Cognitive Predilections Influence the Locations and Shapes of Religious Rituals 

Robert N. McCauley (2014). Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion. C. Moser and C. Weiss (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 143-163.

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March 20, 2014

Explanatory Pluralism and the Cognitive Science of Religion (book chapter) [PDF]→

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Or Why Scholars in Religious Studies Should Stop Worrying about Reductionism

R.N. McCauley (2013). Mental Culture: Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion. D. Xygalatas and W. W. McCorkle, Jr. (eds.). London: Acumen, pp. 11-32.

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March 20, 2014

Why Science Is Exceptional and Religion Is Not→

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A Response to Commentators on Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not

Robert N. McCauley (2013). Religion, Brain & Behavior. 3 (2), 165-182., 165-182.

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Functions, Mechanisms, and Contexts→

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Comments on “Cognitive Resource Depletion in Religious Interactions”

Robert N. McCauley (2013). Religion, Brain & Behavior 3, 68-71.

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Professor McCauley presented the Gifford Lecture: Religions and Their Cognitive Kin in the King’s College Conference Centre at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland

Noteworthy Articles

  • The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Science

    — Explanation and Cognition

  • Explanatory Pluralism and the Heuristic Identity Theory

    — Theory and Psychology

  • Reduction: Models of Cross-Scientific Relations and Their Implications for the Psychology-Neuroscience Interface

    — Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science

  • Susceptibility to the Muller-Lyer Illusion, Theory Neutral Observation, and the Diachronic Cognitive Penetrability of the Visual Input System

    — Philosophical Psychology

  • Time Is of the Essence: Explanatory Pluralism and Accommodating Theories About Long Term Processes

    — Philosophical Psychology

  • Domesticating Scrupulosity

    — The Natural Method: Ethics, Mind, and Self

  • The Importance of Being “Ernest”

    — Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities

  • Intertheoretic Relations and the Future of Psychology

    — Philosophy of Science

Recommended Sites

  • Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

  • EdX MOOC: Science of Religion

  • Robert’s Psychology Today blog: Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not

  • International Cognition and Culture Institute

  • Pascal Boyer’s website

  • Tom Lawson’s website 

  • Joe Henrich’s website

  • Harvey Whitehouse’s website

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