Publications
My published work
Books
De Smedt, J. and De Cruz, H. (2020). The challenge of evolution to religion. Cambridge University Press.
De Cruz, H. (2019). Religious Disagreement. Cambridge University Press.
De Cruz, H. and De Smedt, J. (2015). A natural history of natural theology. The cognitive science of theology and philosophy of religion. MIT Press. Table of contents, Book flyer, and author interview.
Edited volumes
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (forthcoming, 2023). Avatar: The Last Airbender. Wisdom from Aang to Zuko Wiley.
De Cruz, H. (2022). Philosophy illustrated. Forty-two thought experiments to broaden your minds. Oxford University Press.
De Smedt, J., & De Cruz, H. (2021). Empirically engaged evolutionary ethicsSpringer.
De Cruz, H., De Smedt, J., & Schwitzgebel, E. (2021). Philosophy and science fiction stories. Exploring the boundaries of the possible. Bloomsbury Academic.
De Cruz, H., & Nichols, R. T. (2016). Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
De Cruz, H. (2022). A taste for the infinite: What philosophy of biology can tell us about religious belief, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 57 (1): 161–180.
De Cruz, H. (2021). Perplexity and philosophical progress., Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 45, 209–221.
De Cruz, H. (2020). Believing to Belong: Addressing the Novice-Expert Problem in Polarized Scientific Communication, Social Epistemology, 34 (5): 440 - 452.
Larsen, R. R., De Cruz, H., Kaplan, J., Fuentes, A., Marks, J., Pigliucci, M., Alfano, M., Livingstone Smith, D. & Schroeder, L. (2020). More than provocative, less than scientific: A commentary on the editorial decision to publish Cofnas, Philosophical Psychology, 33 (7), 893--898. Note: this is a letter to the editor.
De Cruz, H. (2018). Religious conversion, transformative experience, and disagreement. Philosophia Christi, 20 (1): 265 - 275.
De Cruz, H. (2018). Etiological challenges to religious practices. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55 (4): 329 - 340.
De Cruz, H. (2018). Religious beliefs and philosophical views: a qualitative study. Res Philosophica, 95 (3): 477 - 504.
De Cruz, H. (2018). Prestige bias: An obstacle to a just academic philosophy. Ergo, 5, 259 - 287.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2017). Intuitions and arguments: Cognitive foundations of argumentation in natural theology. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 9, 57 - 82.
De Cruz, H. (2017). Religious disagreement: A study among academic philosophers. Episteme, 14, 71 - 87.
De Cruz, H. (2016). Numerical cognition and mathematical realism. Philosophers' Imprint, 16, 1 - 13.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2016). Naturalising natural theology. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 6, 355-361
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2015). The epistemic value of speculative fiction. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XXXIX, 58 - 77.
De Cruz, H. (2015). The relevance of Hume's Natural History of Religion for cognitive science of religion. Res Philosophica, 92, 653 - 674.
De Cruz, H. (2015). Where philosophical intuitions come from. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93, 233 - 249.
De Cruz, H. (2014). Cognitive science of religion and the study of theological concepts. Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy, 33, 487--497.
De Cruz, H. (2014). The enduring appeal of natural theological arguments. Philosophy Compass, 9, 145 - 153.
De Cruz, H. & De Maeseneer, Y. (2014). The imago Dei: evolutionary and theological perspectives. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 49, 95-100.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2014). The imago Dei as a work in progress: A perspective from paleoanthropology. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 49, 135-156.
De Cruz, H. (2013). Religious concepts as structured imagination. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 23, 63 - 74.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2013). Reformed and evolutionary epistemology, and the noetic effects of sin. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 74, 49 - 66.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2013). The value of epistemic disagreement in scientific practice. The case of Homo floresiensis. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 44, 169 - 177.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2013). Delighting in natural beauty: Joint attention and the phenomenology of nature aesthetics. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 5, 167 - 186.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2013). The artistic design stance and the interpretation of Paleolithic art. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 139 - 140.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2013). Mathematical symbols as epistemic actions. Synthese, 190, 3 - 19.
De Cruz, H. (2012). How do spatial representations enhance cognitive numerical processing? Cognitive Processing, 13, 137 - 140.
De Cruz, H. (2012). Are numbers special? Cognitive technologies, material culture and deliberate practice. Current Anthropology, 53, 215 - 216.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2012). Evolved cognitive biases and the epistemic status of scientific beliefs. Philosophical Studies, 157, 411 - 429.
Blancke, S., De Smedt, J., De Cruz, H., Boudry, M., & Braeckman, J. (2012).The implications of the cognitive sciences for the teaching of science and religion: The case of evolutionary theory. Science & Education, 21, 1167 - 1184.
Blancke, S., Boudry, M., Braeckman, J., De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2011). Dealing with creationist challenges. What European biology teachers might expect in the classroom. Journal of Biological Education, 45, 176-182.
De Cruz, H., Boudry, M., De Smedt, J. & Blancke, S. (2011). Evolutionary approaches to epistemic justification. dialectica, 64, 517 - 535.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2011). Supernatural punishment: What traits are being selected? Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1, 75 - 77.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2011). The cognitive appeal of the cosmological argument. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 23, 103 - 122.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2011). A cognitive approach to the earliest art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 69, 379 - 389.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2011). The role of material culture in human time representation. Calendrical systems as extensions of mental time travel. Adaptive Behavior, 19, 63 - 76.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2011). Science as structured imagination. Journal of Creative Behavior, 44, 29 - 44.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2010).Paley's iPod. The cognitive basis of the design argument within natural theology. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 45, 665 - 684.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2010). The innateness hypothesis and mathematical concepts.Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy, 29, 3 - 13.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2010). Toward an integrative approach of cognitive neuroscientific and evolutionary psychological studies of art.Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 695 - 719.
De Cruz, H. (2009). Is linguistic determinism an empirically testable hypothesis? Logique & Analyse, 208, 327 - 341.
De Cruz, H. (2008). Bridging the gap between intuitive and formal number concepts: An epidemiological perspective. Behavioral and Brain Science, 31, 649 - 650.
De Cruz, H. (2008). An extended mind perspective on natural number representation. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 475 - 490.
De Cruz, H., & Pica, P. (2008). Knowledge of number and knowledge of language: Number as a test case for the role of language in cognition. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 437 - 441.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2007). The role of intuitive ontologies in scientific understanding - The case of human evolution. Biology and Philosophy, 22, 351 - 368.
De Cruz, H. (2006). Why are some numerical concepts more successful than others? An evolutionary perspective on the history of number concepts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 306 - 323.
De Cruz, H. (2006). Towards a Darwinian approach to mathematics. Foundations of Science, 11, 157 - 196.
De Cruz, H. (2004). Why humans can count large quantities accurately. Philosophica, 74, 63 - 83.
Encyclopedia articles
De Cruz, H. (2017). Religion and Science (extended entry). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2013). How does Material Culture Extend the Mind? In: E. G. Carayannis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of creativity, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship (pp. 863 - 869). Springer.
Edited special issues
De Cruz, H. & Pica, P. (2008). Number as a test case for the role of language in cognition. Philosophical Psychology, 21.
De Cruz, H. & De Maeseneer, Y. (2014). The imago Dei: Evolutionary and theological perspectives. Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 41.
Articles in books
De Cruz, H. (2020). Seeking epistemic friction in the philosophy of religion.. In: M. Panchuk & M. C. Rea. (Eds.)., Voices from the edge: Centering marginalized perspectives in analytic theology (pp. 155-168). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
De Cruz, H. (2020). Awe and wonder in scientific practice: Implications for the relationship between science and religion.. In: M. Fuller, D. Evers, A. Runehov, K.-W. Sæther, and B. Michollet (Eds.)., Issues in science and theology: Nature – and Beyond (pp. 155-168). Cham: Springer
De Smedt, J. and De Cruz, H. (2019). Cognitive science of religion and the nature of the divine A pluralist, nonconfessional approach.. In: J. Martin (Ed.)., Theology without walls (pp. 128-137). London: Routledge
De Cruz, H. (2019). Animal cognition, species invariantism, and mathematical realism. In: A. Aberdein and M. Inglis (Eds.), Advances in experimental philosophy of logic and mathematics(pp. 39–61). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
De Cruz, H. (2018). Testimony and children's acquisition of number concepts.. In: S. Bangu (Ed.), Naturalizing logico-mathematical knowledge: Approaches from philosophy, psychology and cognitive science (pp. 164-178). London: Routledge.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2018). Emotional responses to fiction: An evolutionary approach.. In: R. Joyce (Ed.), The handbook of evolution and philosophy (pp. 387 - 398). New York and Abingdon: Routledge.
De Cruz, H. (2018). Testimony and children's acquisition of number concepts.. In: S. Bangu (Ed.), Naturalizing logico-mathematical knowledge: Approaches from philosophy, psychology and cognitive science (pp. 164-178). London: Routledge.
De Cruz, H. (2016). The naturalness of religious belief: Epistemological implications. In: K. J. Clark (Ed.), The Blackwell companion to naturalism (pp. 481-493). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
De Cruz, H. (2015). Divine hiddenness and the cognitive science of religion. In A. Green and E. Stump (Eds.), Hidden divinity and religious belief (pp. 53-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
De Cruz, H. & De Smedt, J. (2015). How do philosophers evaluate natural theological arguments? An experimental philosophical investigation. In H. De Cruz & R. Nichols (Eds.), Advances in religion, cognitive science, and experimental philosophy (pp. 119-142). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
De Smedt, J. & De Cruz, H. (2012). Human artistic behaviour: Adaptation, byproduct, or cultural group selection? In: K. Plaisance & T. Reydon (Eds.), Philosophy of behavioral biology (pp. 167-187). Springer, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science.
De Cruz, H., Neth, H., & Schlimm, D. (2010). The cognitive basis of arithmetic. In: B. Loewe & T. Mueller (Eds.), PhiMSAMP. Philosophy of mathematics: Sociological aspects and mathematical practice (pp. 59-106). London: College Publications.
De Smedt, J., De Cruz, H., & Braeckman, J. (2009). Why the human brain is not an enlarged chimpanzee brain. In: H. Hogh-Olesen, J. Tonnesvang, & P. Bertelsen (Eds.), Human characteristics. Evolutionary perspectives on human mind and kind (pp. 168- 181). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
De Cruz, H. (2009). An enhanced argument for innate elementary geometric knowledge and its philosophical implications. In: B. Van Kerkhove (Ed)., New perspectives on mathematical practices. Essays in philosophy and history of mathematics (pp. 185-206). New Jersey: World Scientific.
De Cruz, H. (2009). The role of intuitive probability in scientific theory formation. In: B. Loewe, E. Pacuit & J.-W. Romeijn, (Eds.), Foundations of formal sciences VI: Reasoning about probabilities and probabilistic reasoning (pp. 123-139). London: College Publications.
De Cruz, H., & De Smedt, J. (2007). How material culture extends the mind: Mental time-travel and the invention of the calendar. In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference (pp. 232-237). Hove and New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
De Cruz, H. (2007). How does complex mathematical theory arise? Phylogenetic and cultural origins of algebra. In: C. Gershenson, D. Aerts, & B. Edmonds (Eds.), Worldviews, science and us: Philosophy and complexity (pp. 338-351). New Jersey: World Scientific.
De Cruz, H. (2005). How do cultural numerical concepts build upon an evolved number sense? In B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 565-570). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.