R.N. McCauley (2016). Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. K. Clark (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 462-480.
Read MoreArticles: Philosophy of Science
Maturationally Natural Cognition, Radically Counter-Intuitive Science, and the Theory Ladenness of Perception (PDF)→
/Robert N. McCauley (2015). Journal of the General Philosophy of Science, 46(1), 183 – 199.
Read MoreMaturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion (book chapter) (PDF)→
/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.
Read MoreThe Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Alex Mesoudi, Kevin N. Laland, Robert Boyd, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Flynn, Robert N. McCauley, Jürgen Renn, Victoria Reyes-García, Stephen Shennan, Dietrich Stout, and Claudio Tennie (2013). Cultural Evolution, Strüngmann Forum Report. Volume 12. P. J. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 193-216.
Read MoreExplanatory Pluralism and the Cognitive Science of Religion (book chapter)→
/Why Scholars in Religious Studies Should Stop Worrying About Reductionism
Robert 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.
Read MoreWhy Science Is Exceptional and Religion Is Not→
/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.
Read MoreScientific Method as Cultural Innovation (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Robert N. McCauley (2013). Cultural Evolution, Strüngmann Forum Report. Volume 12. P. J. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 175-190.
Read MoreWhy Religion Is Natural, and Science Is Not→
/Robert N. McCauley (2012). The Montreal Review, September 18, 2012.
Read MoreTime Is of the Essence [PDF]→
/Explanatory Pluralism and Accommodating Theories About Long Term Processes
Robert N. McCauley (2009). Philosophical Psychology 22, 611-635.
Read MoreReduction: Models of Cross-Scientific Relations and Their Implications for the Psychology-Neuroscience Interface [PDF]→
/R.N. McCauley (2007). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science. P. Thagard (ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 105-158.
Read MoreEnriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations (book chapter) [PDF]→
/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.
Read MoreThe Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Science (book chapter) [PDF]→
/Robert N. McCauley (2000). Explanation and Cognition. F. Keil and R. Wilson (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 61-85.
Read MoreReview of On the Contrary→
/Critical Essays, 1987-1997, P. M. Churchland and P.S. Churchland
Robert N. McCauley (2000). The Journal of Philosophy 97, 297-301.
Read MoreLevels of Explanation and Cognitive Architectures (book chapter) [PDF]→
/R.N. McCauley (1998). A Companion to Cognitive Science. W. Bechtel and G. Graham (eds.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 611-624.
Read MoreIntertheoretic Relations and the Future of Psychology [PDF]→
/R.N. McCauley (1986). Philosophy of Science 53, 179-199.
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