Publications

2026 Intentions and Motives in Morality and Law James Bernard Murphy · The American Journal of Jurisprudence · Scholar only — 2026 Review Index James Bernard Murphy · Scholar only — 2026 Travis Curtright: The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Pp. xiii, 245.) James Bernard Murphy · The Review of Politics · Scholar only — 2025 Between the Serpent and the Sovereign: On the Perception of Divine Violence James Bernard Murphy · The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook · Scholar only — 2025 Plato and Aristotle on Craft and Craftsmen James Bernard Murphy · The Concept of Work in the History of European Philosophy, edited by Gene Callahan (Palgrave-Macmillan) — 2025 Review of Thomas Albert Howard, Broken Altars James Bernard Murphy · Commonweal Magazine — 2024 Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible James Bernard Murphy · Cambridge University Press 2 2023 Greek Philosophy as a Religious Quest for the Divine James Bernard Murphy · Forum Philosophicum 1 2023 The Third Sword: On the Political Role of Prophets James Bernard Murphy · Cambridge University Press — 2021 Haunted by Paradise: A Philosopher’s Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions James Bernard Murphy · Cascade Books 1 2021 Meaning and Knowledge: Why Stories Beat Facts James Bernard Murphy · The Valley News — 2021 Review of Shaun Nichols, Rational Rules: Toward a Theory of Moral Learning James Bernard Murphy · Metascience — 2020 Habit and Convention at the Foundation of Custom James Bernard Murphy · Noesis 39 2020 Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood James Bernard Murphy · University of Pennsylvania Press — 2019 How to Think Politically James Bernard Murphy · Bloomsbury Publishing — 2018 A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue James Bernard Murphy · Sussex Academic Press — 2018 Review of Riccardo Saccenti, Debating Medieval Natural Law James Bernard Murphy · Speculum — 2018 Riccardo Saccenti, Debating Medieval Natural Law: A Survey. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 155. $45. ISBN: 978-0-268-10040-7 James Bernard Murphy · Scholar only — 2017 Aquinas and Modern Law James Bernard Murphy · Routledge · Scholar only 2 2017 Augustine and modern law James Bernard Murphy · Routledge · Scholar only 9 2017 Live and Unplugged: Teaching in a Digital Age James Bernard Murphy · Academe — 2016 Free Speech and the Internet:“The Future of First Amendment Jurisprudence” James Bernard Murphy · Scholar only 1 2016 Review of Civics Beyond Critics: Character Education in a Liberal Democracy by Ian MacMullen James Bernard Murphy · Perspectives on Politics — 2015 Does Habit Interference Explain Moral Failure? James Bernard Murphy · Review of Philosophy and Psychology 5 2015 Does Religion Give Rise to Violence or the Other Way Around? James Bernard Murphy · Washington Post — 2015 Review of Review of Brian Tierney’s book Liberty and Law: The Idea of Permissive Natural Law James Bernard Murphy · The American Historical Review — 2014 Free Market Morals James Bernard Murphy · Critical Review 7 2014 Religious Violence: Myth or Reality? A Symposium on William T. Cavanaugh’s The Myth of Religious Violence James Bernard Murphy · Political Theology 6 2014 The Philosophy of Customary Law James Bernard Murphy · Oxford University Press 55 2013 Aquinas and Modern Law James Bernard Murphy · Ashgate Publishing — 2013 Positive Divine Law in Austin James Bernard Murphy · The Legacy of John Austin’s Jurisprudence, eds. Michael Freeman and Patricia Mindus (Dordrecht: Springer) 5 2013 The teacher as the forlorn hope of modernity: MacIntyre on education and schooling James Bernard Murphy · Revue internationale de philosophie · Scholar only 16 2012 Suarez, Aquinas, and the Just War: Self-Defense or Punishment? James Bernard Murphy · From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics, eds. Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven and William A. Barbieri (Berlin: De Gruyter) 14 2012 The Morality of Bargaining James Bernard Murphy · The Journal of Business Ethics — 2011 Augustine and Modern Law James Bernard Murphy · Ashgate Publishing — 2011 In Defense of Being a Kid James Bernard Murphy · the Wall Street Journal — 2011 Introduction James Bernard Murphy · Augustine and Modern Law (Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishers) — 2011 La tiranía de la flor de la vida en la economía de Aristóteles James Bernard Murphy · Revista Empresa y Humanismo · Scholar only 1 2011 Perspectives on Power James Bernard Murphy · The Journal of Political Power 19 2011 The Morality of Bargaining: Insights from “Caritas in Veritate” James Bernard Murphy · Journal of business ethics · Scholar only 2 2010 Against Civic Education in Schools James Bernard Murphy · Debating Moral Education, eds. Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben (Durham and London: Duke University Press) — 2010 Faculty Forum: Live and Unplugged James Bernard Murphy · Redbook · Scholar only — 2010 Opus Dei: Prayer or Labor James Bernard Murphy · Sophia — 2010 Review of Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, eds. Bruce Frohnen and Kenneth Grasso James Bernard Murphy · Perspectives on Politics 2 2009 The Nature of Customary International Law James Bernard Murphy · British Yearbook of International Law · Scholar only — 2007 Against Civic Education in Public Schools James Bernard Murphy · International Journal of Public Administration 42 2007 From Aristotle to Hobbes James Bernard Murphy · Scholar only — 2007 From Aristotle to Hobbes: William Galston on Civic Virtue James Bernard Murphy · Social Theory and Practice 5 2007 Positive Language and Positive Law in Plato’s Cratylus James Bernard Murphy · Plato and Modern Law, ed. Richard O. Brooks (Ashgate Publishing) — 2007 The Character of Customary Law: an Introduction James Bernard Murphy · The Nature of Customary Law eds. Amanda Perreau-Saussine and James Bernard Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 23