Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind

Robert N. McCauley is William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and the founding Director of Emory's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. He is the author of Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not and Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion. He is also the co-author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion and Bringing Ritual to Mind. He has been elected president of both the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion, and he will serve as a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in 2021. George Graham has held professorships in philosophy at Alabama-Birmingham, Georgia State, and Wake Forest, where he was A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy. He has published more than a dozen books, including The Disordered Mind and The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion. He is also co-author, with G. Lynn Stephens, of When Self-Consciousness Breaks. He has served as President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and received numerous awards for teaching and research awards from such institutions as The Rockefeller Foundation and The National Endowment for the Humanities.

• List of Figures Table of Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter One: God Naturally, Disorder Actually: Ecumenical Naturalism and Religious Cognition Chapter Two: Voice of God, Sound of Self: Sources of Religious Experience and Symptoms of Illness Chapter Three: Praying in the Dark: Depression and Divine Abandonment Chapter Four: Scrupulosity, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Ritual Chapter Five: Searching for the Gods' Minds the Hard Way Chapter Six: Ecumenical Naturalism: Principles, Presuppositions, and Prospects Reference List

Hearing Voices will be of great interest to those invested in the cognitive science of religion.