Jeffrey P. Bishop, M.D., Ph.D.
Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics; professor of philosophy, professor of health care
ethics; professor of theology
Department of Health Care Ethics
Education
- Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Dallas
- M.A. in philosophy from the University of Dallas
- Internal Medicine Residency Training from the UT Southwestern Medical School
- M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School
- B.S. in theology from the Austin Graduate School of Theology (formerly the Institute for Christian Studies)
- B.A. in zoology from the University of Texas
Research Interests
Bioethics, philosophy of medicine; history of philosophy; medicine and spirituality.
Publications and Media Placements
Books
- Bishop, J. P., Lysaught, M.T., Michel, A.A. (2022). Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Bishop, J. P. (2011). The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
Journal Articles
- Bishop, J.P. (2025) “Intuiting the Excess: Science, Interpretation, and the Transcendence of Life” Modern Theology
- Bishop, J.P. (2025) “On the Liturgical Consummation of Any Future Enhancement: A Prolegomena” Christian Bioethics
- Mason, J., Malone, J, Bishop, J.P.,. (2025) “Ritual and Power in Medicine: Questioning Honor Walks in Organ Donation” HEC Forum
- Bishop, J.P. (2023) “Transhumanism’s Weird Religion: On the Ontotheological Morality of the Posthuman” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 10(2): 175-198.
- From Essay to Disputation: The Liberal Arts in the Age of AI (with Charles Freiberg) Church Life Journal 10 April 2025.
- The Resurrection of the Bodies We Have. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 30 April 2024.
- Toward a Liturgical Cosmotechnics. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 11 March 2024
- What is Man that AI is Mindful of Him. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 19 February 2024.
- MAiD: Culture, Meaning, and Death. Jeffrey P. Bishop, Church Life Journal 7 November 2023.
- Don’t succumb to the temptation to reduce wholes to the sum of their parts: On free will and scientific explanation. Jeffrey P. Bishop ABC Religion and Ethics 23 October 2023.
Honors and Awards
- Paul Ramsey Award 2024
- Engelhardt Award for Foundations in Bioethics 2021
- Expanded Reason Award 2021