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Publications

Jeff Schloss

Journal Articles

Schloss, J.P. & Murray, M. (In Press) Evolutionary Accounts of Belief in Supernatural Punishment: A Critical Review. Religion, Brain & Behavior.

Schloss, J.P., Barrett, J., and Murray, M. (2010) Looking Past vs. Overlooking Cognitive Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: A Response to N BarrettJournal of the American Academy of Religion 78(3): 622-628.

Schloss, J.P. and Murray, M. (2010). Explaining and explaining away religious belief: Comments on Van Till’s Criticisms of Barrett. Theology and Science. 8(1): 17-23.

Edited Books

Schloss, J. P. & Murray, M. (ed.) (2009) The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Murray, M., & Schloss, J. (In Press). Evolution and Theism. In S. Goetz & C. Taliaferro (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Theism: Routledge Press.

Schloss, J. P. (2009) Evolutionary Theories of Religion: Science Set Free or Naturalism Run Wild? In The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion (ed. J. P. Schloss & M. Murray). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Murphy, N. & Schloss, J. P.  2008.  Biology and Religion. In Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology (ed. Michael Ruse), Oxford: Oxford University Press.  545-569.

Schloss, J. P. (2008) He Who Laughs Best: Religious Affect as a Solution to Recursive Cooperative Defection. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman), pp. 205-215. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.

Schloss, J. P. (2005) Hath Darwin Suffered a Prophet's Scorn? Evolutionary Theory and the Scandal of Unconditional Love. In Spiritual Information (ed. C. Harper), pp. 291-299: Templeton Press.

Schloss, J. P. (2004) Evolutionary ethics and Christian morality: surveying the issues. In Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective (ed. P. Clayton & J. Schloss), pp. 1-24. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.

Schloss, J. P. (2002) "Love Creation's Final Law?": Emerging Evolutionary Accounts of Altruism. In Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (ed. S. Post, L. Underwood, J. Schloss & W. Hurlbut), pp. 212-242. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Commentary

Schloss, J.P. and Murray, M. (2010). You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Evolution and True Beliefs? Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 32(6): 533-534.

Schloss, J.P. and Murray, M. (2010). Evolution, design, and genomic suboptimality: Does science “save” theology? PNAS. 107(30): E121.