John Patrick Murray, BA, PhD

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John Patrick Murray, BA, PhD

Professor

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.

Department

Philosophy

Position

Professor

Books

  • Murray Patrick, etal Social Form and the “Purely Social”: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value - Chapter 7 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal The Legend of Hegel’s Labor Theory of Reason - Chapter 3 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal From Hegel on Enlightenment Terror to Marx on Capital - Chapter 10 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal The Commodity Spectrum - Chapter 8 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal Reclaiming the Concepts of Value and Capital - Chapter 6 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal Recognizing Capital: Some Barriers to Public Discourse About Capital - Chapter 2 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal A Brilliant Failure: Hegel and Marx Assess the Enlightenment - Chapter 9 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, etal Being Mortal - Chapter 3 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • 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