Michael Murray

Dr. Michael Murray is the President of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and Senior Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA). Previously, Dr. Murray served as Senior Vice President of Programs at the John Templeton Foundation from 2009-2019 and as Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College from 1990-2010. Dr. Murray has also held academic appointments at Oxford University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to a variety of articles in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of religion, he has recently authored or edited Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge, with Michael Rea) and Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (Oxford), The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion (Oxford, with Jeffrey Schloss), On Predestination and Election (Yale) and Divine Evil? (Oxford, with Michael Rea and Michael Bergmann).