Address:

Department of History
Suite 352B
3401 Walnut Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6228

Education:

• B.A. Harvard University, 1949
• Ph.D. Yale University, 1954

Academic Positions:

Academic Awards and Fellowships:

• Fulbright Fellow, Cambridge University, 1953-1954
• Rockefeller Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1954-1956
• $1000 award for excellence in teaching, University of Pennsylvania, September 25, 1959.
• Social Science Research Council Fellow, Stanford University, 1961-1962
• The Herbert W. Schneider Award of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy for Distinguished Contributions to the Understanding and Development of American Philosophy, 1992
• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies, May 17, 1993.

Academic Offices:

• Secretary-Treasurer, Charles S. Peirce Society, 1966
• Vice-President, Charles S. Peirce Society, 1967
• President, Charles S. Peirce Society, 1968
• Editor, American Quarterly, 1970-1973

Memberships:

• Committee on Social Science Personnel, Social Science Research Council, 1969-1973; Chairman, 1971-1973
• Council, American Studies Association, 1971-1973
• Advisory Committee on the Summer Program, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, 1971-1972
• Board of Directors, Social Science Research Council, 1972-1978
• Chairman, Editorial Board, American Quarterly, 1973-1980
• Council of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1975-1981
• Co-Chairman, Committee on the History and Epistemology of the Sciences of Man, Social Science History Association, 1976-1980
• Co-Chairman, Committee on Methodology in Historical Social Science, Social Science History Association, 1976-1980
• Chairman, Nominating Committee, Social Science History Association, 1978-1979

Directorships:

• Director, Summer Institute on the History of American Philosophy, sponsored by the Council for Philosophical Studies, Haverford College, 1976
• Director, Summer Seminar on American World Views, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1978
• Co-Director, Summer Institute on the Newtonian and Darwinian Revolutions, sponsored by the American Studies Associations, Haverford College, 1979
• Director, Summer Seminar on New Perspectives in American Studies, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1980
• Director, Summer Seminar on New Perspectives in American Studies, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1983

WRITINGS OF MURRAY G. MURPHEY

BOOKS

Amos Bronson Alcott: The Origin and Development of His Philosophy. B.A. Thesis, Harvard University, 1949. 93 pp.

The Synechism of Charles Sanders Peirce. Dissertation, Yale University, 1954.

The Development of Peirce’s Philosophy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. Reprinted with new preface and appendix (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993). xi + 432 pp.

Principles tendencies de la filosofia norteamericana. With Elizabeth Flower. Washington: Union Panamericana, 1963. 160 pp.

Our Knowledge of the Historical Past. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974. Reprinted, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1980. vi + 209 pp.

Science and Technology in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Philadelphia ’76, 1976. 24 pp.

A History of Philosophy in America. 2 vols. With Elizabeth Flower. New York: Putnam’s, 1977.

American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States. 4 vols. Murray G. Murphey, General Editor. Washington, D.C.: United States Information Agency, 1982.

Values and Value Theory in Twentieth Century America. Edited by Murray G. Murphey and Ivar E. Berg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. vi + 301 pp.

Anthony Garvan: Culture, History, and Artifacts. A memorial tribute presented at a special meeting of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 25 March 1992. Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1992. 20 pp.

Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xiv + 344 pp.

ARTICLES

"Hester Prynne in History." With Charles Boewe. American Literature 32 (1960): 202-204.

"Charles Peirce." Article in Collier’s Encyclopedia (New York: P. F. Collier, 1959), vol. 15, pp. 506-507.

"Charles Sanders Peirce." Article in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. James Edwards (New York: Free Press, 1967), vol. 6, pp. 70-78.

"The Influence of Science on Modern Culture." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105 (1961): 461-467.

"Culture, Character, and Personality." In American Character and Culture: Some Twentieth Century Perspectives, ed. John A. Hague (DeLand, Fla.:1964), pp. 48-61.

"An Approach to the Historical Study of National Character." In Meaning and Context in Cultural Anthropology, ed. Melford E. Spiro (New York: Free Press, 1965), pp. 144-163.

"On Peirce’s Metaphysics." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 1.1 (Spring 1965): 12-25.

"American Civilization as a Discipline." Emory Quarterly 22 (1967): 48-61.

"Kant’s Children: The Cambridge Pragmatists." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 4.1 (Winter 1968): 3-33.

"On The Relation Between Science and Religion." American Quarterly 20(1968): 275-295.

"John Wesley Powell: Exploration of the Colorado River." In Landmarks of American Writing, ed. Hennig Cohen (New York: Basic Books, 1969), pp. 194-206.

"American Civilization at Pennsylvania." American Quarterly 22 (1970): 489-502.

"The Place of Beliefs in Modern Culture." In New Directions in American Intellectual History, ed. Paul K. Conkin and John Higham (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), pp. 151-165.

"Towards an Historicist History of American Philosophy." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 15.1 (Winter 1979): 3-18.

"The Psychodynamics of Puritan Conversions." American Quarterly 31 (1979): 135-147.

"American Civilization in Retrospect." American Quarterly 31 (1979): 402-406.

"The Social Sciences and American Studies." In American Character and Culture in the 1980’s: Pluralistic Perspectives, ed. Gene Wise (Boston: University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1982), pp. 23-27.

"Introduction." To John Dewey, The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, vol. 14: Human Nature and Conduct, ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983), pp. ix-xxiii.

"Non-Response in Samples from Historical Populations: Observations on the Problem." Social Science History 8 (1984): 455-467.

"Peirce’s Early Writings." Semiotica 55 (1985): 259-263.

"Explanations, Causes, and Covering Laws." History and Theory Beiheft 25 (1986): 43-57.

"Signs, Acts, and Objects." Social Science History 11 (1987): 211-232.

"American Philosophy." In Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States, ed. Luther S. Leudtke (Washington: United States Information Agency, 1987; Revised ed., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), pp. 325-343.

"Thorstein Veblen: Instinctive Values and Evolutionary Science." In Value and Value Theory in Twentieth-Century America: Essay in Honor of Elizabeth Flower, ed. Murray G. Murphey and Ivar E. Berg (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), pp. 122-145.

"The Scientific Study of Religion in America, 1870-1980." In Religion and Twentieth Century American Intellectual Life, ed. Michael J. Lacey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 136-171.

"The Underdetermination Thesis." In Frontiers in American Philosophy, vol. 1, edited by Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992), pp. 157-165.

"Introduction." To Thorstein Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990), pp. vii-xlv.

"Advocacy and Academe." In Religious Advocacy and American History, ed. Bruce Kuklick and D. G. Hart (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997), pp. 65-80.

"Benjamin Franklin." Article in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (New York, Routledge, 1998).

"Thomas Jefferson." Article in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (New York, Routledge, 1998).

"American Civilization as a Discipline?" American Studies 40 (1999): 5-21.

REVIEWS FOR:

Saturday Review of Literature, American Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Historical Methods News Letter, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Semiotica, Journal of American History, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, International Studies in Philosophy, American Historical Review.

PRESENTATIONS

"Some Aspects of the Geographical Distribution of American Scientists, 1790-1860." Joint meeting of the American Sociological Society and the American Studies Association, Washington, September 9, 1956.

"Peirce’s Theory of Transfinite Numbers and His Synechism." Charles S. Peirce Society, Philadelphia, December 27, 1956.

"Some Hypotheses Concerning the Development of Peirce’s Philosophy." Charles S. Peirce Society, St. Louis, May 4, 1961.

"Peirce: Metaphysics and Pragmatism." Charles S. Peirce Society, Boston, December 28, 1964.

Commentator, Session on Creativity in Charles Sanders Peirce, American Philosophical Society, Western Division, Chicago, May 6, 1971

Commentator, Session on History and Social Science, The Social Science Research Council and the Study

of History: A Twenty-Five Year View, American Historical Association, New York, December 28, 1971.

Chairman, Session on the History of American Philosophy, Bicentennial Symposium, New York, October 8, 1976.

Chairman, Session on the Prospects for a Scientific Social Science, Social Science History Association, Philadelphia, October 31, 1976.

Chairman, Session on the American Experience: A Theory of Social Development, American Historical Association, Washington, December 29, 1976.

"Belief and Culture." Wingspread Conference on Intellectual History, Racine, Wisconsin, December 1, 1977.

Three Lectures on the History of American Philosophy, Notre Dame University, February 21-25, 1977.

"Toward An Historicist History of American Philosophy." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Villanova University, March 3, 1978.

Commentator, Session on Fieldwork in Modern America: Anthropologists and Americanists Meet, American Studies Association, Minneapolis, September 30, 1979.

"Can History Be a Social Science?" Organization of American Historians, Detroit, April 12, 1981.

"Is There an American Culture?" Master Lecture Series, Ramapo College, Mahwah, September 9, 1981.

"The Scientific Study of Religion in America, 1870-1980." Woodrow Wilson Center Conference on Religion and Modern American Intellectual History, Washington, March 14, 1986.

"The Underdetermination Thesis." Frontiers in American Philosophy conference, Texas A&M University, June 2, 1988.

"From Positivism to Negativism to Common Sense." Philosophy and American Culture Conference, California State University, Fullerton, March 10, 1990.

"Anthony Garvan: Culture, History and Artifacts." Library Company of Philadelphia, March 25, 1992.