Michael J. Murray
Vice President, Philosophy and Theology
Michael Murray is Vice President for Philosophy and Theology. He is responsible for creating large-scale funding initiatives that engage Big Questions in philosophy, theology, and their intersection with the sciences.
Before joining the Foundation, Michael was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor for Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion. In addition to numerous articles in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of religion, he has published Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions (Blackwell, with Eleonore Stump), Reason for the Hope Within (Eerdmans), Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge, with Michael Rea) and Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (Oxford). He also has two books forthcoming: Predestination and Election (Yale) and The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion (Oxford, with Jeffrey Schloss).
Michael received a B.A. in philosophy from Franklin and Marshall and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
