Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Theological Studies at Saint Louis University, where he holds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics. Bishop’s scholarly work explores the philosophical, historical, and political foundations of contemporary scientific theories and practices, and contextualizes the truth claims of medicine and social science. He has published on wide-ranging topics such as medical humanities, science and religion, spirituality and medicine, as well as topics in the philosophy of technology from the use of AI in healthcare to the use of AI in automated weapon systems.

He is the author of over 75 scholarly articles and two award winning books: The Anticipatory Corpse, Notre Dame, 2011 (named the most important book published in 2011 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Religion and Ethics Page) and Bioethics after Neuroscience, (co-authored with M. Therese Lysaught and Andrew A Michel, Bloomsbury, 2022, winner of the Expanded Reason Award 2021). Bishop’s scholarly work explores the social, political, historical, and moral underpinnings of science and technology.

Bishop serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and of Christian Bioethics. He is a Life Member at Clare Hall Cambridge and is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. In the Spring semester of 2027, Bishop will be Academic Visitor in Oxford University’s Department of Theology and Religion and will be the McDonald Visiting Fellow for AI Ethics at the McDonald Centre for Ethics and Public Life at Christ Church College, Oxford. For his scholarly work, Bishop won the Engelhardt Award for Foundations in Bioethics in 2021 and the Paul Ramsey Award in 2024.