Prof Nancey Murphy
Senior Professor of Christian Philosophy
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
Altadena, California, United States
Biography
Biographical information is not available at present.
Biography
Nancey Murphy is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the B.A. from Creighton University (philosophy and psychology) in 1973, the Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (philosophy of science) in 1980, and the Th.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (theology) in 1987.
Her first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (Cornell, 1990) won the American Academy of Religion award for excellence. She is author of eight other books including On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (Fortress, 1996; co-authored with George Ellis), and Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Oxford University, 2007; co-authored with Warren Brown).
Her research interests focus on the role of modern and postmodern philosophy in shaping Christian theology; on relations between theology and science; and relations between neuroscience and philosophy of mind.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Protestantism, History of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Neuroscience, Psychology
Publications
Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Twenty Years of Challenge and Progress (edited volume)
Vatican Observatory Press and Notre Dame Press 2008
Co-authors: Eds: N. Murphy, R.J. Russell and W.R. Stoeger
Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organism, Persons (edited volume)
Oxford University Press 2007
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy & W. R. Stoeger,
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will,
Oxford University Press 2007
Co-authors: With W. S. Brown,
Bodies and Souls, Or Spirited Bodies?
Cambridge University Press 2006
Religion and Science: God, Evolution, and the Soul (edited volume)
Pandora Press 2002
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy & Carl S. Helrich,
Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (edited volume)
Vatican Observatory Press and Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1999
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, R. J. Russell, T. C. Meyering, and M. Arbib,
Whatever Happened to the Soul?: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (edited volume)
Fortress Press 1998
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, W. Brown & H. N. Malony,
Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre (edited volume)
Trinity Press International, 1997; reprinted by University of Notre Dame Press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Brad J. Kallenberg & Mark Thiessen Nation,
Reconciling Theology and Science: A Radical Reformation Perspective,
Pandora Press 1997
Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics,
Westview Press 1997
One the Moral Nature of the Universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics,
Fortress Press 1996
Co-authors: Written with George F. R. Ellis,
Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism: How Modern and Postmodern Philosophy Set the Theological Agenda,
Trinity Press International 1996
Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (edited volume)
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and Vatican Observatory; distributed by University of Notre Dame Press 1995
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Robert J. Russell & Arthur Peacocke,
Theology without Foundations (edited volume)
Abingdon press 1994
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Stanley Hauerwas & Mark Nation
Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion,
Trinity Press International, 1994; reprinted by Wipf and Stock
Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (edited volume)
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and Vatican Observatory; distributed by University of Notre Dame Press, 1993
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Robert J. Russell & C. J. Isham,
Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning,
Cornell University Press 1990
Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will
Springer 2009
Co-authors: co-edited with G.F.R. EIllis and T. O'Connor
Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Religion
Ashgate 2010
Co-authors: co-edited with C. C. Knight
