Murray Griffin Murphey (February 22, 1928 – December 6, 2018) was an American historian and philosopher.
A native of
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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born to Bradford and Margaret Murphey on February 22, 1928,
Murray Murphey graduated from
Harvard University
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and earned a doctorate from
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
.
He began teaching at the
University of Pennsylvania
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as a
Rockefeller Fellow shortly after completing his studies in 1954.
Murphey joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1956, and became a full professor in 1966.
He retired in 2000.
Over the course of his career, Murphy earned awards from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and the
American Studies Association
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.
He also edited the journal ''
American Quarterly
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''.
Murphey died at the age of 90 on December 6, 2018.
References
1928 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
20th-century American historians
21st-century American historians
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Philosophers of history
Writers from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Harvard University alumni
Yale University alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
University of Pennsylvania historians
American academic journal editors
Rockefeller Fellows
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