James B. Murphy’s scholarship and teaching concern political philosophy, especially the themes of social ontology, human development, semiotics, jurisprudence, and the philosophy of education. His books include:
Haunted by Paradise: A Philosopher’s Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions (Cascade Books, 2021).
Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood (Penn Press, 2020).
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World (with Graeme Garrard) Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue (Sussex Academic, 2018)
The Philosophy of Customary Law (Oxford University Press, 2014)
The Philosophy of Positive Law: Foundations of Jurisprudence (Yale Press, 2005)
The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory (Yale Press, 1993)