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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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June 01, 2016

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

June 01, 2016/ ScienceSites

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

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July 25, 2014

Maturationally Natural Cognition, Radically Counter-Intuitive Science, and the Theory Ladenness of Perception (PDF)→

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Robert N. McCauley (2015). Journal of the General Philosophy of Science, 46(1), 183 – 199.

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March 21, 2014

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

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Robert N. McCauley (2015). Religion and Science as Forms of Life:  Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason. C. Salazar and J. Bestard (eds.).  Oxford:  Berghahn Books, pp. 25-48.

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March 20, 2014

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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March 20, 2014

Time Is of the Essence [PDF]→

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Explanatory Pluralism and Accommodating Theories About Long Term Processes

Robert N. McCauley (2009). Philosophical Psychology 22, 611-635.

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March 20, 2014

Reduction: Models of Cross-Scientific Relations and Their Implications for the Psychology-Neuroscience Interface [PDF]→

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R.N. McCauley (2007). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science. P. Thagard (ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 105-158.

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March 20, 2014

Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations (book chapter) [PDF]→

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Incorporating Diachronic Theories

Robert N. McCauley (2007). The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction. M. Schouten and H. Looren de Jong (eds.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 199-223.

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March 20, 2014

The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Science (book chapter) [PDF]→

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Robert N. McCauley (2000). Explanation and Cognition. F. Keil and R. Wilson (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 61-85.

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March 20, 2014

Review of On the Contrary→

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Critical Essays, 1987-1997, P. M. Churchland and P.S. Churchland

Robert N. McCauley (2000). The Journal of Philosophy 97, 297-301.

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March 20, 2014

Levels of Explanation and Cognitive Architectures (book chapter) [PDF]→

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R.N. McCauley (1998). A Companion to Cognitive Science. W. Bechtel and G. Graham (eds.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 611-624.

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Intertheoretic Relations and the Future of Psychology [PDF]→

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R.N. McCauley (1986). Philosophy of Science 53, 179-199.

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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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