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McCauley, R. N. (in press). “Sur la Réduction d'une Science.” Des Neurones à la Conscience: Neurophilosophie et Philosophie des Neurosciences. P. Poirier and L. Faucher (eds). Paris: Syllepse.

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E.T. (2007). "Cognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology," The Archaeology of Ritual. E. Kyriakidis (ed.). Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications, pp. 209-254.

McCauley, R. N. (2007). "Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories," The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction. M. Schouten and H. Looren de Jong (eds.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 199-223.

McCauley, R. N. (2007). "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. P. Thagard (ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 105-158.

Lawson, E. T. and McCauley, R. N. (2006). "Interpretation and Explanation: Problems and Promise in the Study of Religion." J. Slone (ed.). Religion and Cognition: A Reader, London: Equinox.

reprint of chapter 1 of Lawson, E. T. and McCauley, R. N. (1990). Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCauley, R. N. and Henrich, J. (2006). “Susceptibility to the Müller-Lyer Illusion, Theory Neutral Observation, and the Diachronic Cognitive Penetrability of the Visual Input System,” Philosophical Psychology 19, 79-101.

Robert N. McCauley and Joe Henrich

McCauley, R. N. and Whitehouse, H. (2005).“Introduction: New Frontiers in the Cognitive Science of Religion,” Journal of Cognition and Culture 5, 1-13.

Robert N. McCauley and Harvey Whitehouse

McCauley, R. N. (2004). "Philosophical Naturalism and the Cognitive Approach to Ritual,” Thinking through Ritual. K. Schilbrack (ed.). London: Routledge, pp. 148-171.

McCauley, R. N. (2003). "Is Religion a Rube Goldberg Device? Or Oh, What a Difference a Theory Makes!" Essays in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson. B. Wilson and T. Light (eds.). Leiden: Brill, pp. 45-64.

Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson

Lawson, E. T. and McCauley, R. N. (2002). "The Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form: A Theory of Participants' Competence with their Religious Ritual Systems," Current Approaches to the Cognitive Study of Religion. I. Pyysiainen and V. Anttonen (eds). London: Continuum, pp. 153-176.

McCauley, R. N. and Bechtel, W. (2001). "Explanatory Pluralism and The Heuristic Identity Theory," Theory and Psychology 11, 738-761.

McCauley, R. N. (2001). "Ritual, Memory, and Emotion: Comparing Two Cognitive Hypotheses," Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Experience. J. Andresen (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 115-140.

McCauley, R. N. (2000). "Overcoming Barriers to a Cognitive Psychology of Religion," 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.

McCauley, R. N. (2000). "The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Science," Explanation and Cognition. F. Keil and R. Wilson (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 61-85.

Robert N. McCauley and William Bechtel

Bechtel, W. and McCauley, R. N. (1999). "Heuristic Identity Theory (or Back to the Future): The Mind-Body Problem Against the Background of Research Strategies in Cognitive Neuroscience," Proceedings of the Twenty-First Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. M. Hahn and S. C. Stones (eds.). Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 67-72.

McCauley, R. N. (1999). "Bringing Ritual to Mind," Ecological Approaches to Cognition: Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser. E. Winograd, R. Fivush, and W. Hirst (eds.). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 285-312.

McCauley, R. N. (1999). "The Cognitive Foundations of Religion and Science," Religion im Wandel der Kosmologien. D. Zeller (ed.). Berlin: P. Lang, 55-67.

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

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (1998). "Interactionism and the Non-Obviousness of Scientific Theories," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 10, 61-77.

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (1996). "Who Owns 'Culture'?" Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8, 171-190.

McCauley, R. N. (1996). "Explanatory Pluralism and the Coevolution of Theories in Science," The Churchlands and Their Critics. R. N. McCauley (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 17-47.

(2001). reprinted in Philosophy of Neuroscience, W. Bechtel (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 431-456.

Lawson, E. T. and McCauley, R. N. (1993). "Crisis of Conscience, Riddle of Identity: Making Space for a Cognitive Approach to Religious Phenomena," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 61, 201-223.

McCauley, R. N. (1993). "Why the Blind Can't Lead the Blind: Dennett on the Blind Spot, Blindsight, and Sensory Qualia," Consciousness and Cognition 2, 155-164.

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (1993). "Connecting the Cognitive and the Cultural: Artificial Minds as Methodological Devices in the Study of the Sociocultural," Minds: Natural and Artificial. R. Burton (ed.). Albany: State University of New York Press, 121-145.

McCauley, R. N. (1993). "Brainwork: A Review of Paul Churchland's A Neurocomputational Perspective," Philosophical Psychology 6, 81-96.

McCauley, R. N. (1993). "Cross-Scientific Study and the Complexity of Psychology," Annals of Theoretical Psychology—Volume 9. H. V. Rappard and L. P. Mos (eds.). New York: Plenum Press, 413-420.

McCauley, R. N. (1992). "Models of Knowing and Their Relations to Our Understanding of Liberal Education," Metaphilosophy 23, 288-309.

McCauley, R. N. (1988). "Epistemology in an Age of Cognitive Science," Philosophical Psychology 1, 143-152.

McCauley, R. N. (1988). "Walking in Our Own Footsteps: Autobiographical Memory and Reconstruction," Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory. U. Neisser and E. Winograd (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 126-144.

McCauley, R. N. (1987). "The Role of Theories in a Theory of Concepts," Concepts and Conceptual Development. U. Neisser (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 288-309.

(1989). translated into Italian: "Il Ruolo Delle Teorie in una Teoris dei Concetti," Concetti e Sviluppo Concettuale. G. Pessa (trans.) Rome: Città Nuova Editrice, 402-431.

McCauley, R. N. (1987). "The Not So Happy Story of the Marriage of Linguistics and Psychology or How Linguistics Has Discouraged Psychology's Recent Advances," Synthese 72, 341-353.

McCauley, R. N. (1987). "The Role of Cognitive Explanations in Psychology," Behaviorism (subsequently titled Behavior and Philosophy) 15, 27-40.

McCauley, R. N. (1986). "Truth, Epistemic Ideals and the Psychology of Categorization," Philosophy of Science Association—1986, Volume 1, A. Fine and P. Machamer (eds.), East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, 198-207.

McCauley, R. N. (1986). "Intertheoretic Relations and the Future of Psychology," Philosophy of Science 53, 179-199.

(1993). reprinted in Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind, S. M. Christensen and D. R. Turner (eds.), Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 63-81.

McCauley, R. N. (1986). "Problem Solving in Science and the Competence Approach to Theorizing in Linguistics," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 16, 299-312.

McCauley, R. N. (1985). "The Moral Status of Apartheid: Can the Presence of Foreign Corporations in South Africa Be Morally Justified?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15, 565-579.

McCauley, R. N. (1984). "Knowledge, Minds, and Facts," Rejuvenating Introductory Courses, K. Spear (ed.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 53-62.

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (1984). "Functionalism Reconsidered," History of Religions 23, 372-381.

McCauley, R. N. (1982). "The Business of the University," Liberal Education 68, 27-34.

McCauley, R. N. (1981). "Hypothetical Identities and Ontological Economizing: Comments on Causey's Program for the Unity of Science," Philosophy of Science 48, 218-227.