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Nancey Murphy
Professor of Christian Philosophy
School of Theology
Contact Information:
nmurphy@fuller.edu
626-584-5253
Education:

BA, Creighton University
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
ThD, Graduate Theological Union


Biographical Information:
Nancey Murphy joined the Fuller faculty in 1989 and serves as professor of Christian philosophy. She is highly sought as a speaker at national and international conferences on philosophy and the relationship between theology and science. Murphy serves on the board of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, and is a member of the Planning Committee for conferences on science and theology sponsored by the Vatican Observatory.

A prolific writer, Murphy’s first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, received awards from the Templeton Foundation and the American Academy of Religion. Her most recent publications are: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Twenty Years of Challenge and Progress (2008), Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (co-authored with Warren Brown; Oxford University, 2007); Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil (co-edited with Robert Russell and William Stoeger, SJ; Vatican Observatory Press, 2007); Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons (co-edited with William Stoeger, SJ; Oxford University Press, 2007); and Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge University, 2006).   Murphy serves as an editorial advisor for numerous publishers and journals.  She is an adjunct professor at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, and is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Anglo-American postmodern philosophy, theology and science, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience
Additional Information:

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