McCauley, R. N.  (2018).  “Features of Religions as Cognitive By-Products,” Free Inquiry 38 (3), 20-21.

McCauley, R. N.  (2016).  “ A Cognitive Science of Religion Will Be Difficult, Expensive, Complicated, Radically Counter-Intuitive, and Possible:  A Response to Martin and Wiebe.”  Conversations and Controversies in the Scientific Study of Religion.  L. Martin and D. Wiebe (eds.).  Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 297-301.

Reprint of McCauley, R. N.  (2012).  “ A Cognitive Science of Religion Will Be Difficult, Expensive, Complicated, Radically Counter-Intuitive, and Possible:  A Response to Martin and Wiebe.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80, 605-610.

McCauley, R. N.  (2016).  “Are Gods and Good Governments Culturally and Psychologically Interchangeable?”  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39, 34-35.

McCauley, R. N. (2014). “Scientific Fractionation Breaking the Ties that Bind Us,” Current Anthropology 55, 686-87.

McCauley, R. N. (2012). “Functions, Mechanism, and Contexts: Comments on “Cognitive Resource Depletion in Religious Interactions,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 3, 68-71.

McCauley, R. N. (2012). “A Cognitive Science of Religion Will Be Difficult, Expensive, Complicated, Radically Counter-Intuitive, and Possible: A Response to Martin and Wiebe.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80, 605-610.

McCauley, R. N. (2012). “Natural Religion, Unnatural Science,” New Scientist (March 17, 2012) 213, 44-46

McCauley, R. N. (2009). “The Impact of Successful Scientific Theorizing on Conceptualizing Religion,” Religion 39, 200-202.

Cohen, E., Lanman, J., McCauley, R. N., and Whitehouse, H. (2008). “Common Criticisms of the Cognitive Science of Religion – Answered,” Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion 37, 1-4.

Left to right: R. N. McCauley, J. Lanman, H. Whitehouse, and E. Cohen

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.