A philosopher of science, Nancey Claire Murphy teaches at Fuller Theological Seminary where she is professor of Christian philosophy. Her latest book, (with Warren S. Brown) Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Oxford University Press, forthcoming next month), uses contemporary developments in neuroscience and philosophy of mind to defend robust conceptions of mental causation and of humans as beings capable of rational, free, and morally responsible action. Dr. Murphy, who was ordained in 1991, is a minister in the Church of the Brethren, a denomination related to the Mennonites. A summa cum laude graduate of Creighton University, she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980 and a doctorate in theology and philosophy of religion seven years later at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She was a teaching fellow at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a lecturer in philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, and a visiting assistant professor of religion at Whittier College before joining the Fuller faculty as an assistant professor in 1989. She was named to her present position in 1998, and, since 2003, she also has been an adjunct professor at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. Dr. Murphy has held a National Science Foundation Fellowship and received a Creighton University Alumni Achievement Award. She serves on the board of directors of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley and was a member of the board of advisors of the John Templeton Foundation. A former corresponding editor of Christianity Today, Dr. Murphy presently serves on the editorial council of Theology Today and on the editorial advisory boards of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science and of Theology and Science. In addition to contributing articles to scholarly journals and chapters to volumes of collected works, she has co-edited nine books, including (with William R. Stoeger) Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons, which will be published this month by Oxford University Press. She is the co-author (with George F. R. Ellis) of On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (1996) and the author of eight other books, including Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (1990), which won awards from the American Academy of Religion and the Templeton Foundation, Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics (1997), Reconciling Theology and Science: A Radical Reformation Perspective (1997), Religion and Science: God, Evolution and the Soul (2002), and Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (2006).