Murphy, Nancey

Nancey is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary. With undergraduate degrees in psychology and philosophy, and a PhD in Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Berkeley (where she studied under the famed and iconoclastic philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend), she is the author of Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (which won prizes from both the American Academy of Religion and the Templeton Foundation) and of Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? She is the co-author of Whatever Happened to the Soul; On the Moral Nature of the Universe; and Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, serves as an editorial advisor for Theology and Science and Theology Today and a corresponding editor for Christianity Today, and is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.