Nancey Murphy - Selected Writing

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2010 “Reduction and Emergence: A Critical Perspective,” in N. Murphy and C. Knight, eds. Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Religion, Ashgate (forthcoming).

2008 “Neuroscience, Determinism, and Downward Causation: Defusing the Free-Will Problem,” in F. Watts and D. Leach, eds., Creation: Law and Probability, Ashgate.

2008 “The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Theological Appropriation,” in J. Schloss, and M. J. Murray, eds., The Spiritual Primate: Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion. Oxford University.

2008 “On the Role of Philosophy in Theology-Science Dialogue,” in J. J. Vila-Cha, ed., Filosofia e Ciencia: Science in Philosophy, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, pp. 489-505.2007 “Anglo-American Postmodernity and the End of Theology-Science Dialogue? in P. Clayton, ed., Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford.

2007 “Natural Science,” in J. Webster et al, eds., Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, Oxford.

2007 (with W. S. Brown) Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will, Oxford University.

2007 (with W. R. Stoeger, ed.) Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organism, Persons, Oxford

2007 (with R.J. Russell and W.R. Stoeger, eds.) Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on Suffering in Nature, Vatican Observatory Press.

2006 Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? Cambridge University.

2006    “Emergence and Mental Causation,” in P. Davies and P. Clayton, eds., The Re-Emergence of Emergence, Oxford.

2006 “Scientific Perspectives of Christian Anthropology,” Reflections 8 (Spring) 82-100.

2004 “Scientific Cosmology: A New Challenge to Theology,” in C. Impey and C. Petry, eds.,  Science and Theology: Ruminations on the Cosmos, Vatican Observatory.

2002 “Neuroscience and Human Nature: A Christian Perspective,” in Ted Peters and Muzaffar Iqbal, eds., God, Life, and the Cosmos: Theistic Perspectives, Ashgate.

2002 Religion and Science: God, Evolution, and the Soul (ed. Carl S. Helrich) Pandora Press.

2000    “What Has Theology to Learn from Scientific Methodology?” in M. Peterson et al., eds., 2000 “Inquiring after God by Means of Scientific Study,” in Ellen Charry, ed., Inquiring after God, Blackwell. Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, 2nd. ed., Oxford.

1999    “Darwin, Social Theory, and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge”; “Physicalism without Reductionism: Toward a Scientifically, Philosophically, and Theologically Sound Portrait of Human Nature”; and “Theology and Science within a Lakatosian Program,” Zygon, December–an issue dedicated to a profile of my work.

1998 (with W. Brown and H.N. Malony, eds.) Whatever Happened to the Soul? : Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature, Fortress Press.

1997 Reconciling Theology and Science: A Radical Reformation Perspective, Pandora Press.

1997 Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics, Westview Press.

1996 (with George F.R. Ellis) On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics, Fortress Press.

1996 Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism: How Modern and Postmodern Philosophy Set the Theological Agenda, Trinity Press International.

1993 “Philosophical Fractals; Or History as Metaphilosophy,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, no. 3.

1990    “Scientific Realism and Postmodern Philosophy,” The British Journal for The Philosophy of Science, vol. 41.

1990 Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, Cornell University Press.

1989 (with James McClendon) “Distinguishing Modern and Postmodern Theologies,” Modern Theology, April.