Faculty & Professional Staff

Philosophy Department

Michael James Murray, '85

Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and Philosophy

michael.murray@fandm.edu

Office: LSP

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

Complete C.V.

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

• "Four Arguments that the Cognitive Psychology of Religion Undermines the Justification of Religious Belief." in Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Russell Genet and Cheryl Genet, editors. XXX, 2007, pp. 394-8.
• "Divine Hiddenness" with David Taylor, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Religion Paul Copan and Chad Meister, editors. Oxford: Routledge Press.(forthcoming).
• "Why Doesn’t God Make His Existence More Obvious to Us?" in Passionate Conviction. William Lane Craig and Paul Copan (editors), Nashville: B&H Publishing Group. 2007
• "Constructive Engagement between Science and Theology," in Analytic Theology: New Essays in Theological Method Oxford: Oxford University Press. Michael Rea and Oliver Crisp, editors. (forthcoming)
• "Who's Afraid of Religion?" Inaugural Lecture delivered March 30, 2006. Franklin and Marshall College.
• "Does Ethics Require Theism?" Draft
• "Pre-Leibnzian Moral Necessity," Leibniz Review, Volume 14, 2004, pp.1-30.
• "Protestants, Natural Law, and Reproductive Ethics," Philosophical Perspectives on the Ethical Teachings of John Paul II Christopher Tollefson, editor. Amsterdam: Springer, 2004, pp.121-9.
• "Leibniz on Calvinism and The Remonstrants," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, special volume, edited by Donald Rutherford, Volume 76, number 4, pp.623-646.
• "Neo-Cartesian Theodicies of Animal Suffering," with Glenn Ross, forthcoming, Faith and Philosophy
• "Natural Providence: Reply to Dembski," forthcoming, Faith and Philosophy
• "Natural Providence (or Design Trouble)." Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming.
• "Pure Omissions and Responsibility." Under Review.
• "God's I Point of View," Realism and Anti-Realism. William Alston (editor). Cornell University Press..
• "Leibniz on Spontaneity" in Leibniz: Nature and Freedom, Jan Cover and Donald Rutherford, editors, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• "Deus Absconditus," in Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press forthcoming.
• "Does Prayer Change Things?", in Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion, Michael Peterson, New York: Blackwell, forthcoming.
• "Three Versions of Universalism," Faith and Philosophy, Volume 16, January, 1999, pp. 55-68.
• "Repentence and Forgiveness," The World of Forgiveness, Vol 2, n.1, June 1998.
• "Coercion and the Hiddenness of God," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 30, 1993.
• "Seek and You Will Find," God and the Philosophers. Thomas Morris, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1994.

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.