James Murphy
Clinical Professor of Management
James Murphy is a Lecturer of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University, where he also taught as an adjunct instructor from 2011 to 2014. He began teaching at Loyola in 2014, and has taught classes on business ethics, values-based leadership, and the ethics and economics of entrepreneurship. He was named an Emerging Scholar in the Society for Business Ethics in 2016 and nominated for the St. Ignatius of Loyola Excellence in Teaching Award in 2021.
His research focuses on the intersection of critical social theory and business ethics, drawing from both the tradition of democratic theory and the tradition of ‘reification’ to articulate the parameters of ethical experience at the limits of institutions. He is primarily interested in the intercorporeal mediation of intersubjectivity and the role of the body in the construction of both moral and political autonomy, as well as the relationship between libidinal and political economy in entrepreneurial experience and process, and specifically what he calls “horizontal social entrepreneurship,” or the form innovation takes without the synthetic work of a centralized, vertical subject.
Education
- PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University
- MA, Philosophy, DePaul University
- BA, Philosophy and American Studies, Trinity College
Research Interests
- Business Ethics
- Entrepreneurship
- Critical Social Theory
- Political Economy
Professional Employment
- Adjunct Instructor, DePaul University, 2011 - 2014
- Visiting Lecturer on Race and Philosophy, Inside-Out Program, Stateville Correctional Facility, 2012
Professional/Community Affiliations
- Member, Society of Business Ethics, 2022 - present
Courses Taught
- ETHC 341: Ethics in Business
- ETHC 345: Ethics, Economics, and Entrepreneurship
- ETHC 441N: Business Ethics
- ETHC 446: International Business Ethics
- MGMT 360: Values-Based Leadership
Publications/Research Listings
'“Between the Serpent and the Sovereign: On the Force of Perception in Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Ethics”.” Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Walter Benjamin, Print. (Forthcoming in 2025.)
“On the Authoritarian Personality.” SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Ed. Beverly Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O’Kane. London: SAGE Publications, 2018. pp. 899 – 915. Print.
“The Pleasures of Self-Possession: On the Aesthetic Underpinnings of the Lockean Subject of Property.” Delimiting Experience: Aesthetics and Politics. Ed. Ryan Crawford, Gerhard Unterhurner, and Erik Vogt. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2013. pp. 43 – 64. Print.
Awards
- Part-Time Faculty of the Year, 2020
- Emerging Scholar, Society for Business Ethics, 2016