{{short description|American philosopher}} {{distinguish|Michael E. Murray}} {{Infobox philosopher |region = Western philosophy |era= 21st-century philosophy |color = |image = |name = Michael J. Murray |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |school_tradition = | institutions = Franklin and Marshall College, Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, John Templeton Foundation |main_interests = philosophy of religion | thesis_title = | thesis_url= | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors= | doctoral_students = |notable_ideas= | spouse= | education = University of Notre Dame (MA, PhD), Franklin and Marshall College (BA) | alma_mater= |influences = |influenced = |awards = |website = }}
'''Michael J. Murray''' is an American philosopher and the President of Arthur Vining Davis Foundation. He previously taught at Franklin and Marshall College where he was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Murray |url=https://closertotruth.com/contributor/michael-murray/ |website=Closer To Truth}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Name Michael J. Murray as President |url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/arthur-vining-davis-foundations-name-michael-j.-murray-as-president |website=Philanthropy News Digest (PND) |language=en}}</ref> He is known for his works on philosophy of religion.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering |journal=NDPR |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw-theism-and-the-problem-of-animal-suffering/}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/divine-evil-the-moral-character-of-the-god-of-abraham/}}</ref>
==Books== * ''Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham'', edited with Michael Bergmann and Michael C. Rea, Oxford University Press, 2011 * ''Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering'', Oxford University Press, 2008 * ''Philosophy of Religion'' (Cambridge University Press, with Michael Rea) * ''The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion'' (Oxford University Press, with Jeffrey Schloss) * ''Predestination and Election'' (Yale University Press)
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==External links== *[https://www.avdf.org/about/staff/ Murray at AVDF]
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