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John Patrick Murray, BA, PhD

Professor

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Contact

jpm@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 108

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.

Teaching Interests

  • Marx and Marxian theory, critical theory

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, Schuler Jeanne, Social Form and the “Purely Social”: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value - Chapter 7 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, The Legend of Hegel’s Labor Theory of Reason - Chapter 3 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, From Hegel on Enlightenment Terror to Marx on Capital - Chapter 10 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, The Commodity Spectrum - Chapter 8 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Reclaiming the Concepts of Value and Capital - Chapter 6 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Recognizing Capital: Some Barriers to Public Discourse About Capital - Chapter 2 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, A Brilliant Failure: Hegel and Marx Assess the Enlightenment - Chapter 9 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Being Mortal - Chapter 3 [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Faith, Resistance, and the Future
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Kind of Piety Toward Experience: Hope in Nuclear Times [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory
    Murray Patrick, Marx, Berkeley and Bad Abstractions [Book Chapter] 2020
  • The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx
    Murray Patrick, Capital [Book Chapter] 2019
  • , The mismeasure of wealth 2016
  • Capitalism’s Future
    Murray Patrick, Capital’s Reach: How Capital Shapes and Subsumes [Book Chapter] 2016
  • A Companion to Woody Allen
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne A, Disappearing Act [Book Chapter] 2013
  • In Marx's Laboratory
    Murray Patrick, Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx's Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse [Book Chapter] 2013
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne A., Disappearing Act The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Faith Resistance and the Future: Daniel Berrigans Challenge to Catholic Social Thought
    Murray John P., Schuler J., A Kind of Piety Toward Experience: Hope in Nuclear Times [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
    Murray Patrick, Value, Money and Capital in Hegel and Marx [Book Chapter] 2009
  • The Philosophy of Neo-Noir
    Schuler Jeanne, Murray Patrick, 'Anything Is Possible Here' Capitalism, Neo-Noir, and Chinatown [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Murray Patrick, Reflections on commercial life 1997
  • Murray Patrick, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, 'Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought' (Book Review) 1992
  • Murray Patrick, Book Reviews -- Karl Marx: Socialism as Secular Theology. A Philosophic Study by Catherine Reigger Harris 1991
  • McCarthy George, Murray Patrick, McCarthy, George E. Marx' Critique Of Science And Positivism: The Methodological Foundations Of Political Economy // Review 1991
  • Murray Patrick, Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis (review) 1991
  • , The Logic of Marx’s Capital 1991
  • , Marx and the Ancients 1991
  • Murray P, Schuler J A, HEGEL ON ECONOMICS AND FREEDOM - MAKER,W 1988
  • Koterski Joseph W, Murray J. Patrick, Dahlstrom Daniel O, Rice Lee C, Collins James D, History of Philosophy in the Making: A Symposium of Essays to Honor Professor James D. Collins on His 65th Birthday 1982

Publications

  • International communication of Chinese culture
    Schuler Jeanne, Murray Patrick, Yuan Jinmei, Transcendence vs. lacking transcendence: a dialogue on God, form, picture, Dao, and myriad things
    8:2, p. 153 - 171 2021
  • Critical historical studies
    Murray Patrick, The Illusion of the Economic: Social Theory without Social Forms
    7:1, p. 19 - 27 2020
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, The Commodity Spectrum 2017
  • Journal of East-West Thought
    Schuler Jeanne A., Murray John P., Reclaiming the Concepts of Value and Capital
    5:2, p. 19 - 28 2015
  • Murray Patrick, The Secret of Capital's Self-Valorisation 'Laid Bare': How Hegel Helped Marx to Overturn Ricardo's Theory of Profit 2014
  • Journal of philosophy (Charlottesville, Va.)
    , Nationalism, Patriotism, and New Subjects of Ideological Hegemony
    6:14, p. 30 - 43 2011
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Karl Marx and the critique of bourgeois philosophy 2006
  • Rethinking Marxism
    Murray Patrick, The trouble with Ricardian Marxism: comments on 'The Four Drafts of Capital: Toward a New Interpretation of the Dialectical Thought of Marx,' by Enrique Dussel
    14:3, p. 114 - 122 2002
  • Radical philosophy today
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, , Recognizing Capital
    1, p. 101 - 116 2000
  • Social science history
    Murray John, Cosgel Metin, Between God and market
    23:1, p. 41 1999
  • Murray Patrick, Alien Politics: Marxist State Theory Retrieved 1996
  • Murray Patrick, Fraser Ian, Hegel's philosophy of mind and will 1995
  • History of European ideas
    Schuler Jeanne A., Murray Patrick, Educating the passions: Reconsidering David Hume's optimistic appraisal of commerce
    17:5, p. 589 - 597 1993
  • Murray P, THE NECESSITY OF MONEY - HOW HEGEL HELPED MARX SURPASS RICARDO THEORY OF VALUE 1993
  • Murray P, GRAMSCI AND THE HISTORY OF DIALECTICAL THOUGHT - FINOCCHIARO,MA 1992
  • Murray Patrick, Book Reviews -- Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought by Maurice A. Finocchiaro 1992
  • Murray P, MARX,KARL - SOCIALISM AS SECULAR THEOLOGY - A PHILOSOPHIC STUDY - HARRIS,CR 1991
  • Murray Patrick, Catherine Reigger Harris, 'Karl Marx: Socialism as Secular Theology' (Book Review) 1991
  • Harris Catherine, Murray Patrick, Karl Marx - socialism as secular theology 1991
  • 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
  • Murray Patrick, 'Marx' Critique of Science and Positivism: The Methodological Foundations of Political Economy', by George E. McCarthy (Book Review) 1991
  • Murray Patrick, Duquette David, Marx's theory of scientific knowledge 1991
  • Murray Patrick, McCarthy George, Murray, Patrick. Marx's Theory Of Scientific Knowledge // Review 1990
  • Murray Patrick, 'The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism', by Derek Sayer (Book Review) 1990
  • Social philosophy today
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, , 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
  • History of European ideas
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne A., Post-marxism in a French context
    9:3, p. 321 - 334 1988
  • Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Book Reviews: Habermas 1987
  • Philosophy of the social sciences
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Western Marxism's Dialectic of Defeat
    16:3, p. 375 - 382 1986
  • Hermathena
    Murray PATRICK, Money, wealth, and Berkeley's doctrine of signs: a reply to PATRICK KELLY
    139:139, p. 152 - 156 1985
  • Hermathena
    Murray P, MONEY, WEALTH, AND BERKELEY DOCTRINE OF SIGNS - A REPLY TO KELLY,PATRICK, p. 152 - 156 1985
  • The Review of politics
    Murray Patrick, Schuler Jeanne, Marx's Failure as Theorist - Jean L. Cohen: Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. Pp. 264. $22.50.)
    47:1, p. 142 - 146 1985
  • Telos (New York, N.Y.)
    Murray P., Marxism: An American Christian Perspective
    1983:58, p. 236 - 240 1983
  • Telos (New York, N.Y.)
    Murray Patrick, Arthur F. McGovern, 'Marxism: An American Christian Perspective', p. 236 1983
  • Philosophy of the social sciences
    Murray Patrick, Marx Minus Hegel: Further Discussion of Sayer
    13:4, p. 487 - 499 1983
  • Journal of the history of philosophy
    Murray Patrick, John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist (review)
    21:1, p. 103 - 105 1983
  • Murray Patrick, Karen Iversen Vaughn, 'John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist' (Book Review) 1983
  • Murray P, LOCKE,JOHN - ECONOMIST AND SOCIAL SCIENTIST - VAUGHN,KI 1983
  • Hegel-Jahrbuch
    Murray Patrick, Hegel and the Logician of Capital: An Interpretation of Marx's Parisian Critique of Hegel, p. 187 - 193 1983
  • Telos. A Quarterly Journal of Radical Thought Saint Louis, Mo
    Gross D, Murray P, Lipsitz G, Siebert R. J, Gorz A, Keane J, Held D, Casanova J, BETHKE-ELSHTAIN J, Luke I, Hellman J, McGOVERN A, Piccone P, Wolin R, Zipes J, Schuler J, Parinetto L, VAN DULMEN R, Brym R. J, OSIPOVICH-GERSHENZON M, Kovacs A, Chiarante G, Hughes P. M, Religion and Politics, p. 2 - 240 1983
  • Research in Philosophy and Technology
    Murray Patrick, THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGY
    5, p. 223 1982
  • Murray P, THE STRUCTURE OF MARX WORLD-VIEW - MCMURTRY,JR 1980
  • The Modern schoolman
    , Enlightenment Roots of Habermas' Critique of Marx
    57:1, p. 1 - 24 1979