Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy & Religious Studies
Jeffrie G. Murphy’s primary teaching and research areas are philosophy of law and jurisprudence, criminal law, ethics and religion, moral philosophy (including moral psychology), philosophy in literature/law and literature, and Kant’s moral, political and legal philosophy.
Professor Murphy is the author of numerous books and articles on the theory of punishment, forgiveness and mercy, and the moral emotions. Most recently, he has written the book, Getting Even—Forgiveness and its Limits (Oxford University Press), and the article, “Remorse, Apology, and Mercy” (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law), which is to be included in the Criminal Law Conversations project at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A frequent lecturer at conferences and meetings, Professor Murphy will give the McDonald Lecture at Oxford University and four Stanton Lectures at Cambridge University in 2010.
Before joining the College faculty in 1987, Professor Murphy taught philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he was chair of the Philosophy Department from 1972-76, and at the University of Minnesota. From 1981-85, Professor Murphy was chair of the Philosophy Department at ASU. He also was president of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, in 2005-06.
Selected Works
Getting Even - Forgiveness and Its Limits (Oxford University Press 2003).
Remorse, Apology, and Mercy, 4 Ohio St. J. Crim L. 423 (2007).
Legal Moralism and Retribution Revisted, 1 Crim. L. & Phil. 5 (2007). |
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Jeffrie.Murphy@asu.edu
480/965-5856
Assistant: Mary Turnbull
Curriculum Vitae
Education
B.A., Johns Hopkins University (1962)
Ph.D., University of Rochester (1966)
Post-Doctoral N.D.E.A. Fellow, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (1968-69)
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