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Articles: Cognitive Foundations of Religions

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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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A Cognitive Science of Religion Will Be Difficult, Expensive, Complicated, Radically Counter-Intuitive, and Possible→

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A Response to Martin and Wiebe

Robert N. McCauley (2012). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80, 605-610.

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Why Religion Is Natural, and Science Is Not→

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Robert N. McCauley (2012). The Montreal Review, September 18, 2012.

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The God Issue→

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Science Won't Loosen Religion's Grip

Robert N. McCauley. March 17, 2012. New Scientist. 213, 44-46.

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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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book-chapter, 2010
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Cognitive Science and the Naturalness of Religion→

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Robert N. McCauley and Emma Cohen (2010). Philosophy Compass 4, 1-14.

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The Impact of Successful Scientific Theorizing on Conceptualizing Religion [PDF]→

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Robert N. McCauley (2009). Religion 39, 200-202.

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Common Criticisms of the Cognitive Science of Religion – Answered [PDF]→

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Emma Cohen, Jonathan Lanman, Robert N. McCauley, and Harvey Whitehouse (2008). Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion 37, 1-4.

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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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book-chapter, 2007
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How Far Will an Account of Ritualized Behavior Go in Explaining Cultural Rituals?→

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Robert N. McCauley (2006). Behavioural and Brain Sciences 29, 623-624.

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Introduction: New Frontiers in the Cognitive Science of Religion [PDF]→

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Robert N. McCauley and Harvey Whitehouse (2005). Journal of Cognition and Culture 5, 1-13.

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2005, introduction
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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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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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