Nancey Murphy - Selected Public Appearances

Selected Public Appearances

• 2010. "Do Christians Need Souls?: Current Debates on Neuroscience and Human Nature"; and "Moral Responsibility and Free Will: Neurobiological Perspectives"presented at Southern Oregon University.
• 2010. "Some Reflections on Physicalism," presented at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting, Tacoma, WA.
• 2009. "Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?" presented at International Conference of Life Education, National Taiwan University.
• 2009. "Cosmopolis: How Astronomy Shapes Religion and Philosophies of Human Nature," Astronomy and Civilization Conference, Budapest.
• 2009. "Anglo-American Postmodern Philosophy—Really?" and "Why Christians Should Be Physicalists," Jellema Lecutres, Calvin College.
• 2009. "Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?", Witherspoon Lecture, Queen's University.
• 2008. "Is 'Nonreductive Physicalism' an Oxymoron?" American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia.
• 2008. Intensive course on theology and science, Seventh Day Adventist Seminary, Florence.
• 2008. "Theology and Science in a Postmodern Context," "Theology, Science, and Human Nature," and "Science and Divine Action" presented at Peking and Renmin Universities.
• 2008. "Alasdair MacIntyre's Role in the Development of Contemporary Philosophical Ethics," "Why Science Needs Theology," and "Naturalism and Theism as Competing Traditions, or the Importance of Worldview in Science," Tartu University, Estonia.
• 2008. "Nonreductive Physicalism and Free Will," Metnexus Conference, Madrid.
• 2008. "When Jesus Said 'Love Your Enemies' I Think He Probably Meant Don't Kill Them," presented at Chinese-Western "Conference on Law and Love," Berlin.
• 2008. "Downward Causation versus Causal Reductionism: Shewing the Fly out of the Fly- Bottle," European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Utrecht.
• 2008. "Neuroscience, Christian Anthropology, and the Role of Women in the Church," St. Mary's College, Notre Dame.
• 2008. "Spirited Bodies: Human Nature in Philosophy, Science, and Baptist Theology," The Charles H. Townes Lecture, Furman University.
• 2008. "The New Atheism and the Scientific-Naturalist Tradition," Creighton University.
• 2007. "Christian Theology, Scientific Naturalism, and Science: An Epistemological Assessment," presented at St. Andrew's Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow.
• 2007. "Scientific Atheism: A Christian Response," presented at St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC.
• 2007. "Human Nature at the Intersection: Philosophy, Science, and Baptist Theology," presented at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN.
• 2007. "Nonreductive Physicalism, Divine Action, and Striving to Know the Will of God," presented at Sophia Europa Conference, Oxford.
• 2007. "Cognitive Science and the Evolution of Religion: A Philosophical and Theological Appraisal," Christians in Science and American Scientific Affiliation conference, University of Edinburgh.
• 2007. "Naturalism and Theism as Competing Large-Scale Traditions," University of Lancaster.
• 2006. "Naturalism and Theism as Competing Traditions," Austrian Wittgenstein Society conference, Kirchberg, Austria.
• 2006. "One (Irish) Theologian's Reflections on the Cognitive Science of Religion," Institute for Cognition and Culture, Belfast.
• 2006. Reid Lectures, Westminster College, Cambridge.
• 2006. "Physicalism or Dualism: Which Way for People of Faith?" and "Suffering at the Hands of Nature: Where Was God?" at Tehran International Congress on Science and Religion.
• 2005. "From Theological Anthropology and Neuroscience to an Ethic of Discipleship," St. Andrew's Biblical Theological College, Moscow.
• 2005. "Hebraic and Christian Views of Human Nature," conference on neuro-ethics at MIT.
• 2005. "Scientific Perspectives on Christian Anthropology," presented at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton; Yale Divinity School; and Pepperdine University.
• 2005. "Whatever Happened to the Soul?," and "Reason, Religion and Science: A Response to Richard Dawkins," Journalists' Fellowship Program, Cambridge University.
• 2005. "From Neurons to Politics--Without a Soul," presented at Eastern Mennonite University; and Wesleyan Philosophical Society, Seattle Pacific University.
• 2004. "Downward Causation and The Freedom of the Will," Austin Farrer Centenary Conference, Oxford.
• 2004. "Neuroscience, Determinism, and Downward Causation: Defusing the Free-Will Problem,"plenary address, International Society for Science and Religion, Boston.
• 2003. "Is Theology Possible at the End of Modernity?" Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt.
• 2003. Nordenhaug Lectures, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague.
• 2003. Integration Lectures, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Seminary.
• 2003. Scottish Journal of Theology Lectures, Aberdeen.
• 2002. Theological Reflections on the Moral Nature of Nature," plenary lecture, European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, Nijmegen; and University of Aarhus, Denmark.
• 2001. "The Problem of Mental Causation: How Does Reason Get Its Grip on the Brain?" St. Edmund's College, and "How Christian Physicalists Can Avoid Losing Their Minds: An Essay on the Problem of Mental Causation," seminar, Divinity Faculty,Cambridge University.
• 2001. "The Resurrection of the Body, Emotion and Personal Identity," Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, Heidelberg.
• 2001. "Why Christians Should Be Physicalists" and "How Physicalists Can Avoid Being Reductionists," Adelaide, Australia.
• 2001. "Divine Creation and Cosmology," Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.
• 2001. "A Glimpse at Science Through the Eyes of American Protestantism," zoology department, Cambridge University.
• 2000. "What is the Nature of Theology?" Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
• 2000. "Is Theology Possible at the End of Modernity?" Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
• 2000. "Reconsidering Our Dusty Origins: The Good Life for Humankind in the New Millennium," Reykyavik, Iceland.
• 2000. "Top-Down Mental Causation: An Argument for Nonreductive Physicalism," Marquette University philosophy colloquium.
• 1998. "Pluralism and Christianity: A Radical-Reformation Perspective," University of Groningen.
• 1998. "The Nonviolent Direct Action of God," Pretoria, South Africa.
• 1998. "Neuroscience and Theology," Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 1998. "Supervenience, Downward Causation, and Free Will: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action," Pasierbiec, Poland.
• 1998. "Supervenience Redefined," philosophy colloquium, U.C. Irvine.
• 1998. "Nonreductive Physicalism: Philosophical Issues," American Scientific Affiliation and Christians in Science, Cambridge University.
• 1997. "Overcoming Hume on his Own Terms," Claremont Philosophy of Religion Conference.
• 1995. "Theology and Ethics in the Hierarchy of the Sciences," plenary address, Upper Midwest Regional AAR/SBL, St. Paul, MN.
• 1994. The Rockwell Lectures: "Experience or Scripture: How Do We Know God?" "Immanence or Intervention: How Does God Act in the World? and "Postmodernity: The End of Liberalism and Fundamentalism?" Rice University, Houston, TX.
• 1994. "Postmodernism: What is it? and Why Should a Lawyer Care?" at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ.
• 1993. "Postmodern Non-Relativism: Imre Lakatos and Alasdair MacIntyre," Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, Boston University.