Patrick Murray is professor of philosophy and the John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities at Creighton University. He is author of Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988) and editor of Reflections on Commercial Life (1997). A collection of his essays on Marx, The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form, is in press from Brill in the book series of the journal Historical Materialism. Patrick Murray was born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He is married to Dr. Jeanne Schuler, a member of the Department of Philosophy at Creighton University. They have three adult children.
Research Focus
His research interests center on the relation between capitalism and modern philosophy and include the British empiricists, Hegel, Marx, and the Frankfurt School.
Faith, Resistance, and the Future Murray Patrick, etal Kind of Piety Toward Experience: Hope in Nuclear Times [Book Chapter] 2022
Irish and British Reflections on Catholic Education Murray John, A DeFide Case Against ‘Faith Development’? [Book Chapter] 2021
Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory Murray Patrick, Marx, Berkeley and Bad Abstractions [Book Chapter] 2020
The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx etal Capital [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, 'A Cemetery Awash in Blood': the Counter-Revolution [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Freedom or Death! [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, 'The Loveliest Time': the Behaviour and Values of the German Soldier [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Archival Sources [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, The End of Italian Rule [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, The Resistance of Daily Life [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Greek Workers in the Reich [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, The Occupation Begins [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Politics of the Andartiko [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, ELAS: the People's Liberation Army [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Greek Jewry and the Final Solution [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Note on Sources [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, An Atmosphere of Imminent Catastrophe [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Urban Protest [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Epilogue: 'No Peace without Victory' [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Black Market Axioms [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, The SS and the Terror System [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Prudence or Bravery? The Old Politicians [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, People's Democracy in Free Greece [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, The Logic of Violence [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Venizelos's Funeral [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, Anatomy of a Massacre: 16 August 1943 [Book Chapter] 2019
Inside Hitler's Greece Murray John, 'Tired Out by History': Athens '44 [Book Chapter] 2019
, The mismeasure of wealth 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Necessity of Money: How Hegel Helped Marx Surpass Ricardo's Theory of Value [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Marx's 'Truly Social' Labour Theory of Value: Part I, Abstract Labour in Marxian Value Theory [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Introduction: Putting the Spotlight on Social Form and Purpose [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Reply to Geert Reuten [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the 'Religion of Everyday Life' [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Beyond the 'Commerce and Industry' Picture of Capital [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Trouble with Ricardian Marxism: Comments on 'The Four Drafts of Capital: Towards a New Interpretation of the Dialectical Thought of Marx' by Enrique Dussel [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Secret of Capital's Self-Valorisation 'Laid Bare': How Hegel Helped Marx to Overturn Ricardo's Theory of Profit [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Social and Material Transformation of Production by Capital: Formal and Real Subsumption in Capital, Volume I [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The New Giant's Staircase [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Grammar of Value: A Close Look at Marx's Critique of Samuel Bailey [Book Chapter] 2016
Capitalism’s Future Murray Patrick, Capital’s Reach: How Capital Shapes and Subsumes [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Avoiding Bad Abstractions: A Defence of Co-constitutive Value-Form Theory [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, Redoubled Empiricism: The Place of Social Form and Formal Causality in Marxian Theory [Book Chapter] 2016
The Mismeasure of Wealth Murray Patrick, The Place of 'The Results of the Immediate Production Process' in Capital [Book Chapter] 2016
A Companion to Woody Allen Murray Patrick, etal Disappearing Act [Book Chapter] 2013
Murray John, etal Strategy, innovation, and change: challenges for management 2008
Ralston Penny A, etal Social Change, Public Policy, and Community Collaborations 2000
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, James Madison [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Friedrich Schiller [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, General Introduction: 'On Studying Commercial Life' (with bibliographies) [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, G.W.F. Hegel [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Bernard Mandeville [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, John Stuart Mill [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Thorstein Veblen [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Hannah Arendt [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Georges Bataille [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, ST. Thomas more [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, ST. Thomas Aquinas [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Simone Well [Book Chapter] 1997
Murray Patrick, Reflections on commercial life 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Marcel Mauss [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Georg Simmel [Book Chapter] 1997
Reflections on Commercial Life Murray Patrick, Jean Baudrillard [Book Chapter] 1997
Murray J, LANGHOLM. 'Economics in the Medieval Schools: Wealth, Exchange, Value, Money and Usury According to the Paris Theological Tradition, 1200-1350' (Book Review) 1993
Murray Patrick, Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (review) 1991
, The Logic of Marx’s Capital 1991
, Marx and the Ancients 1991
Murray Patrick, Must a Historicist be a Relativist? 1989
Murray P, etal HEGEL ON ECONOMICS AND FREEDOM - MAKER,W 1988
Rural Education in Urbanized Nations: Issues and Innovations Murray John, etal Sea Change in the Western Isles of Scotland: The Rise of Locally Relevant Bilingual Education [Book Chapter] 1981
Rubin Bernard, etal Media Regulation/Responsibility 1979
Publications
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Murray John, Biomedical Controversies in Catholic Ireland: A Contemporary History of Divisive Social Issues by Don O’Leary (review) 110:438, p. 254 - 258 2021
Murray Patrick, etal The Commodity Spectrum 2017
New hibernia review Murray Patrick, The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland by Patricia Palmer (review) 19:1, p. 147 - 149 2015
Eco-Architecture V: Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature Murray J, etal DesignBuildBLUFF: Coyote Architecture On The Colorado Plateau 142, p. 603 - 614 2014
Journal of philosophy (Charlottesville, Va.) , Nationalism, Patriotism, and New Subjects of Ideological Hegemony 6:14, p. 30 - 43 2011
Online journal of issues in nursing Murray John, Moral Courage in Healthcare: Acting Ethically Even in the Presence of Risk 15:3, p. 1G 2010
Science progress (1916) Murray JOHN, Darwin and his publisher John Murray 92:3/4, p. 289 - 295 2009
The Irish theological quarterly Murray John, Review Article: Is Catholic Social Teaching a Communitarian Ethic? 68:4, p. 379 - 391 2003
Radical philosophy today Murray Patrick, etal Recognizing Capital 1, p. 101 - 116 2000
Children's Literature Association Quarterly Murray John, Patricia Wrightson's Pastoral: The Nargun and the Stars 22:4, p. 175 - 180 1997
Literature & theology Murray John, Inheriting the land? Some literary and ethical issues in the use of indigenous material by an Australian children's writer, 1960-1990 10:3, p. 252 - 260 1996
Éire-Ireland (St. Paul) Murray Patrick, Éamon de Valéra’s Indispensable Secretary: Kathleen O’Connell, 1888–1956 30:4, p. 111 - 133 1995
Children's literature (Storrs, Conn.) Murray John, The law of The Jungle Books 20:1, p. 1 - 14 1992
Murray Patrick, Book Reviews : George E. McCarthy, Marx'Critique of Science and Positivism: The Methodological Foundations of Political Economy. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1988. Pp. xi, 225, $74.00 1991
Social philosophy today Murray Patrick, etal Historical Materialism Revisited 4, p. 39 - 52 1990
History of political economy Murray Patrick, Karl Marx as a Historical Materialist Historian of Political Economy 20:1, p. 95 - 105 1988
Telos (New York, N.Y.) Murray P., Marxism: An American Christian Perspective 1983:58, p. 236 - 240 1983
Journal of the history of philosophy Murray Patrick, John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist (review) 21:1, p. 103 - 105 1983
The Modern schoolman , Enlightenment Roots of Habermas' Critique of Marx 57:1, p. 1 - 24 1979
Modern (The) Schoolman Saint-Louis, Miss Murray J. P, Enlightenment Roots of Habermas'Critique of Marx 57:1, p. 1 - 24 1979
Telos (New York, N.Y.) Murray Patrick, Introduction to Krahl 1974:21, p. 162 - 163 1974