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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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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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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

The Importance of Being “Ernest” (book chapter) (PDF)→

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Robert N. McCauley (2012). Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities. E. Slingerland and M. Collard (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 266-281.

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March 20, 2014

How Science and Religion Are More Like Theology and Commonsense Explanations Than They Are Like Each Other (book chapter) [PDF]→

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A Cognitive Account 

Robert N. McCauley (2010). Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and Cognitive Science. P. Pachis and D. Wiebe (eds.). Thessaloniki: Barbounakis Publications, pp. 242-265.

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March 20, 2014

Cognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology (book chapter) [PDF]→

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Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson (2007). The Archaeology of Ritual. E. Kyriakidis (ed.). Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, 209-254.

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March 20, 2014

Philosophical Naturalism and the Cognitive Approach to Ritual (book chapter) [PDF]→

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Robert N. McCauley (2004). Thinking Through Ritual. K. Schilbrack (ed.). London: Routledge, 148-171.

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March 20, 2014

Is Religion a Rube Goldberg Device? (book chapter) [PDF]→

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Or Oh, What a Difference a Theory Makes! 

Robert N. McCauley (2003). Religion as a Human Capacity: A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson. B. Wilson and T. Light (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 45-64

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March 20, 2014

The Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form: A Theory of Participants’ Competence With Religious Ritual Systems (book chapter) [PDF]→

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E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley (2002). Current Approaches in the Cognitive Science of Religion. I. Pyysiainen and V. Anttonen (eds). London: Continuum, 153-176.

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Ritual, Memory and Emotion: Comparing Two Cognitive Hypotheses (book chapter)→

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Robert N. McCauley (2001). Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience. J. Andresen (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 115-140.

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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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