Norenzayan, Ara, Azim Shariff, Aiyana Willard, Edward Slingerland, Will Gervais, Rita McNamara and Joseph Henrich. “Parochial Prosocial Religions: Historical and Contemporary Evidence for a Cultural Evolutionary Process.” (PDF) Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2016).

“Big Gods, Historical Explanation, and Bringing Religious Studies Out of the Intellectual Ghetto,” (PDF) Religion (September 2015). *

“Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14.2: 211-218. *

Norenzayan, Ara, Azim Shariff, Aiyana Willard, Edward Slingerland, Will Gervais, Rita McNamara and Joseph Henrich. “The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions,” (PDF) Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2014). *

Jiang, Ashlan Falletta-Cowden, Sveinn Sigurdsson, Rita McNamara, Madeline Sands, Shirajum Munira, Edward Slingerland and Joseph Henrich. “Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network” (PDF) (12 manuscript pages), Human Nature (October 2014).

“Toward a Second Wave of Consilience in the Cognitive Scientific Study of Religion” , (PDF) Journal for Cognitive Historiography 1.1: 121-130 (2013). *

“Body and Mind in Early China: An Integrated Humanities-Science Approach,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81.1: 6-55 (March 2013). *

JAAR #43 most-read article as of August 2016

Portions to be reprinted in “China as the Radical “Other”: Lessons for the Cognitive Science of Religion,” in Is Religion Natural? The Chinese Challenge, ed. Ryan Hornbeck, Elizabeth Seiver and Justin Barrett (Forthcoming)

Modified version reprinted as “Interdisciplinary Methods in Chinese Philosophy: Comparative Philosophy and the Case Example of Mind- Body Holism,” in Research Handbook on Methodology in Chinese Philosophy, ed. Sor Hoon Tan, pp. 323-351. London: Bloomsbury (2016).

Turchin, Peter, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard. “A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution.” (PDF) Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 3: 271–293 (December 2012).

“Back to the Future: A Response to Martin and Wiebe,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80.3: 611-617 (2012).

“邁向經驗上可信賴的論理學：認知科學，德性論理，與中國早期思想德‘不費力注意’” [A re-refereed and updated version of a 2010 book chapter, “Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought,” (PDF) translated by 马鼎当 into Chinese], 中國哲學與文化 [The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture] 9: 35-75 (May 2012). *

Slingerland, Edward and Maciej Chudek. “The Challenges of Qualitatively Coding Ancient Texts,” (PDF) Cognitive Science 36.2: 183-186 (March 2012). *

Bulbulia, Joseph and Edward Slingerland. “Religious Studies as a Life Science,” (PDF) Numen 59.5: 564–613 (2012). *

Slingerland, Edward and Joseph Bulbulia. “Evolutionary Science and the Study of Religion,” (PDF) Religion 41.3: 307-328 (September 2011). *

Reber, Rolf and Edward Slingerland. “Confucius Meets Cognition: New Answers to Old Questions,” (PDF) Religion, Brain and Behaviour 1.2: 135-145 (June 2011). *

Co-authored piece with a cognitive psychologist exploring how recent work in psychology bears upon the paradox of wu-wei in the Analects.

Slingerland, Edward and Maciej Chudek. “The Prevalence of Folk Dualism in Early China,” (PDF) Cognitive Science 35: 997-1007 (Summer 2011). *

A report of a new technique for performing large-scale qualitative analysis of historical texts, with response to critics.

“Metaphor and Meaning in Early China,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.1 (Winter 2011): 1-30. *

Winner: Dao, Annual Best Essay Award (2012)

Followed by “Reply to Prof. Moeller’s Response,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.4 (Fall 2011): 537-539.

Topic of panel discussion, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 2012

Chinese translation by Bao Yongling 鮑永玲 to be published in《中西哲學論衡》[Comparative Philosophy: China and West], Vol 3 (2014), Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

“The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics,” (PDF) Ethics 121.2 (January 2011): 390-419. *

Selected as a target article for discussion on the Philosophy blog “Pea Soup”

Revised and reprinted in Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives From Psychology, Theology and Philosophy (ed. Nancy Snow), 135-170. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“‘Of What Use Are the Odes?’ Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics,” (PDF) Philosophy East & West 61.1 (January 2011): 80-109. *

Reprinted in New Directions in Chinese Philosophy (ed. Cheng Chung-yi and Cheung Chan-fai), Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2014, pp. 69-102.

Chinese translation by Ai Chenyi 艾宸伊, “誦《詩》三百，亦奚以為？身體性的思維和早期儒家的修身”, published in 中國儒學 [Chinese Confucian Studies] 10, October 2015, 212-243.

“Good and Bad Reductionism: Acknowledging the Power of Culture,” (PDF) invited response to Joseph Carroll target article, “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study”, Style 42.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2008): 266-271.

“The Problem of Moral Spontaneity in the Guodian Corpus,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7.3 (Fall 2008): 237-256. *

An updated statement of themes explore in my 2003 Effortless Action, exploring new evidence from a corpus of archeological texts.