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Philip Clayton is visiting faculty assistant at Harvard Divinity School. He holds a PhD in both religious studies and philosophy from Yale University. Having taught at Haverford College, Williams College, and the California State University, he is now Ingraham Professor at the Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Claremont Graduate University. Clayton was most recently visiting professor at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Previously he has held visiting posts as Humboldt Professor at the University of Munich, Senior Fulbright Fellow, also in Munich, and guest professor at Harvard Divinity School. He is a past winner of the Templeton Book Prize for best monograph in the field of science and religion and a winner of the first annual Templeton Research Prize. Clayton is the author or editor of 15 books and some 100 articles in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, theology, and related fields. Publications include The Problem of God in Modern Thought; God and Contemporary Science; Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion; Quantum Mechanics: The Problem of Divine Action; Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective; In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World; Science and the Spiritual Quest; and Practicing Science, Practicing Faith: Twelve Scientists in the Quest for Integration. His current research interest lies in exploring the philosophical and religious implications of emergence theory, published as Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness (Oxford, 2004) and In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007). From 1999 to 2003 Dr. Clayton served as principal investigator of the Science and the Spiritual Quest program at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
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