BOOKS

Whitehouse, H. and McCauley, R. N. (eds.) (2005). Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity. Walnut Grove, CA: Alta Mira Press. "Introduction," 6-30.

McCauley, R. N. and Lawson, E. T. (2002). Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCauley, R. N. (ed.) (1996). The Churchlands and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. "Introduction," 1-13 and chapter 1, 17-47 (listed below).

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

paperback edition (1993). second printing (1996).

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

McCauley, R. N., and Whitehouse, H. (eds.) (2005). The Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity; special issue of Journal of Cognition and Culture 5, 1-142.

Harvey Whitehouse and Robert N. McCauley
 

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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

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 Muller-Lyer Illusion, Theory Neutral Observation, and the Diachronic Cognitive Penetrability of the Visual Input System,” Philosophical Psychology 19, 79-101.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

McCauley, R. N. (forthcoming). "The Principal Aim of a Liberal Education," Inaugural Lecture of the Blount Undergraduate Initiative, University of Alabama.

McCauley, R. N. (2006). "How Far Will an Account of Ritualized Behavior Go in Explaining Cultural Rituals?" Behavioural and Brain Sciences 29, 623-624.

McCauley, R. N. (2002). "Theoretical Arguments are not Icons," Ritual Studies 16, 23-29.

McCauley, R. N. (2000). Review of On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997, P. M. Churchland and P.S. Churchland, Journal of Philosophy 97, 297-301.

McCauley, R. N. (1999). "Evolutionary Psychology," The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (second edition). R. Audi (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 295-296.

McCauley, R. N. (1999). "Reductionism," The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. R. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press, 712-714.

McCauley, R. N. (1998). "Comparing the Cognitive Foundations of Religion and Science," Emory Cognition Project Report #37.

McCauley, R. N. (1998). Review of The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul, P. Churchland, The Philosophical Quarterly 48, 542-545.

McCauley, R. N. (1996). Review of Psychology and Nihilism, F. Evans, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64, 910-912.

Lawson, E. T. and McCauley, R. N. (1995). "Caring for the Details: A Humane Reply to Buckley and Buckley," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63, 353-357.

McCauley, R. N. (1995). Review of Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change, A. Clark, The Philosophical Quarterly 45, 241-243.

McCauley, R. N. (1994). Review of Consciousness Reconsidered, O. Flanagan, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 30, 61-65.

McCauley, R. N. (1992). "Defending Normative Naturalism: A Reply to Ellen Klein," Philosophical Psychology 5, 299-305.

McCauley, R. N. (1990). "Sociology of Knowledge as Epistemology," a review of Social Epistemology, S. Fuller, Contemporary Psychology 35, 569-571.

McCauley, R. N. (1989). "Acceptability, Analogy, and the Acceptability of Analogies," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12, 482-483.

McCauley, R. N. (1989). "Psychology in Mid-Stream: A Reply to Bechtel," Behaviorism (subsequently titled Behavior and Philosophy) 17, 75-77.

McCauley, R. N. (1987). "Psychology and Epistemology," a review of Epistemology and Cognition, A. Goldman, Contemporary Psychology 32, 522-524.

McCauley, R. N. (1987). "Reply to Robinson," Contemporary Psychology 32, 393.

McCauley, R. N. (1986). "Searching for a Fully Scientific Psychology," a review of Annals of Theoretical Psychology, Volume 3, K. B. Madsen and Leendert P. Mos (eds.), Contemporary Psychology 31, 844-845.

McCauley, R. N. (1986). Review of Science as Cognitive Process, R. Rubinstein, C. Laughlin, and J. McManus, Isis 77, 112-113.

McCauley, R. N. (1986). "The Concept of Mind Matters," a review of Philosophy of Psychology, D. Robinson, Contemporary Psychology 31, 428-429.

McCauley, R. N. (1985). "Concepts, Theories, and Truth," Emory Cognition Project Report #8.

McCauley, R. N. (1984). "Inference and Temporal Encoding in Episodic Memory," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7, 246-247.

McCauley, R. N. (1983). "Critical Misunderstanding and the Misunderstanding of 'Criticism,'" Liberal Education 69, 87-89.

McCauley, R. N. (1982). "The Science of Science," a review of On Scientific Thinking, R. Tweney, M. Doherty, C. Mynatt (eds.), Contemporary Psychology 27, 721-722.

McCauley, R. N. (1982). "Living and the Liberal Arts," The Courier 3, 14.

McCauley, R. N. (1980). "Reflections on Davidson's Anomalous Monism," Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society 5, 12-20.

McCauley, R. N. (1978). Review of Cultural Thematics, T. Seung, Comparative Drama 12, 170-172.