Franklin & Marshall College Franklin & Marshall College

Michael Murray '85

Visiting Scholar in Philosophy
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Summary: Research Interests: Leibniz, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics

Education

BA, Franklin & Marshall College, 1985

MA, University of Notre Dame, 1988

PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1991

Grants & Awards

  • Sabbatical Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, $40,000
  • 2003-4 Alvin Plantinga Fellowship, Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, $45,000
  • CCCU Scholarship Initiative Grant, a three year collaborative research grant with Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University), Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University), Kevin Corcoran (Calvin College), and William Hasker (Huntington College).
  • 1998 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers.
  • 1997-8 Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison .

Publications

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Books

  • Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, (editor, with Eleonore Stump), Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
  • Reason for the Hope Within (editor), Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans 1999.
  • Leibniz's Philosophical Theology: An annotated translation of Leibniz's commentary on article 17 of Gilbert Burnet's "Commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England." forthcoming
  • Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction with Michael Rea. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering. Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • The Spiritual Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Edited Journal Issues

  • Guest Editor of Supplemental Volume of Faith and Philosophy devoted to the topic “Cosmology and Theology.” Volume 23(5), 2005.

Articles


Encyclopedia Articles

  • "Central Christian Concepts," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, accessible at www.plato.stanford.edu. ISSN 1095-5054, forthcoming (revised 12/07).
  • "Leibniz," encyclopedia entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 2001.
  • "Leibniz on the Problem of Evil," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, accessible at www.plato.stanford.edu. ISSN 1095-5054.

Book Reviews/Review Articles

  • Review of: Leibniz. Nicholas Jolley. (New York: Routledge, 2005), in Philosophical Books, 2008, pp.49-52.

  • Review of: Leibniz and His Correspondents. Paul Lodge (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, in The Leibniz Review Volume 16, 2006, forthcoming.

  • Review of: Leibniz's Metaphysics, Christia Mercer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001 in The Philosophical Review. 112:2, (April, 2003), pp. 270-3

  • Review of: The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy. Elmar J. Kremer and Michael J. Latzer (editors). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001, in The Leibniz Review, forthcoming.

  • Review of: Peter Geach. Truth and Hope: The Furst Franz Josef und Furstin Gina Lectures Delivered at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Lichtenstein, 1998. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001, in Notre Dame Reviews.

  • "Critical Review of Cover and Hawthorne on Leibizian Modality." The Leibniz Review. December 2000. Volume 10. pp. 73-87.

  • Review of: Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagwani, Leibniz on Freedom and Determinism in Relation to Aquinas and Molina. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press) 1999. Forthcoming in Philosophia Christi.

  • Review of: Maria Roas Antognazza and Howard Hotson: Alsted and Leibniz on God, the Magistrate, and the Millenium. Band 34: Wolfebutteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, Studia Leibnitiana. Band XXXI/1 (1999). pp.123-126.

  • Review of: R. Douglas Geivett and Gary Habermas, editors, In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997, Christian Scholar's Review, forthcoming.