Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion

Robert N. McCauley is William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy, as well as Associated Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Anthropology, in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, at Emory University, USA.E. Thomas Lawson is Honorary Professor and Research Scientist at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University-Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as Professor Emeritus of the Department for Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, USA.

• List of FiguresPreface1. Explanatory Pluralism and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Or Why Scholars in Religious Studies Should Stop Worrying about Reductionism2. Interpretation and Explanation: Problems and Promise in the Study of Religion (with E. Thomas Lawson)3. Crisis of Conscience, Riddle of Identity: Making Space for a Cognitive Approach to Religious Phenomena (with E. Thomas Lawson)4. Who Owns ‘Culture’? (with E. Thomas Lawson)5. Overcoming Barriers to a Cognitive Psychology of Religion6. Twenty-Five Years In: Landmark Empirical Findings in the Cognitive Science of ReligionBibliographyIndex

By showing what kind of explanations CSR provides, McCauley and Lawson can be of help for philosophical discussions on CSR.