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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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March 20, 2014

Overcoming Barriers to a Cognitive Psychology of Religion→

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Robert N. McCauley (2000). Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 12, 141-161. (special issue) Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. A. Geertz and R. McCutcheon (eds.). The Hague: Brill.

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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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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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