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He received his doctorate in 1975 from University College, University of London . Prior to doctoral studies, he was "a professional football player, print and television journalist, academic English teacher and world-traveller" and a student of Eastern philosophy. According to himself he "came to philosophy as a last resort, because as someone naturally disposed to question unexamined assumptions and conventional beliefs, I could find no other profession which permitted this vocation at the appropriate level of research."
He calls value theory "my unifying field of research", but has also published and taught in social and political philosophy, Asian/ Indian and Chinese philosophyChinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years. Its origins are often traced back to the Yi Jing (the Book of Changes , an ancient compendium of divination, which introduced some of the most fundamental terms of Chinese philosophy. Its age can, philosophy of economics , philosophy of educationPhilosophy of education is the study of such questions as what education is and what its purpose is, the nature of the knowing mind and the human subject, problems of authority, the relationship between education and society, etc. Since at least Rousseau,, philosophy and literature , philosophy of historyThe philosophy of history asks at least these questions what is the proper unit for the study of the human past? the individual, the city or sovereign territory, the civilization, or nothing less than the whole of the species?; what broad patterns can we, post-Kant continental philosophy , the logic of natural language , and, recently, philosophy of the environment .
He is also part of the peace movementSocial Justice Pacifism The global peace movement refers to a sense of common purpose among organizations that seek to end wars and minimize inter-human violence, usually through pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycott and moral purchasing. and international lawInternational law deals with the relationships between states, or between persons or entities in different states. It sub-divides into "public international law", and " private international law". When used without an adjective, "international law" genera study bodies, e.g. serving as Chair of Jurists, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal at the Alternative World Summit in Toronto, 1989. His professional work has been published in over 150 books and journals, including
Inquiry , the Monist, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Praxis International , the Encyclopedia of Ethics , Atlantic Monthly, Guardian Weekly and the Norton Anthology of Prose .His recent research has focused on the underlying value structure of economic theoryThe value of life is an economic or moral value assigned to life in general, or to specific living organisms. In social and political sciences, it is the marginal cost of death prevention in a certain class of circumstances. As such, it is a statistical t, its consequences for global civil and environmental life, and the life ground and civil commons.
In Unequal Freedoms: The Global Markets As An Ethical System, 1998, he lays out strong arguments for moral purchasing and ethical investing. Any purchasing or investing decision makes ethical and moral choices anyway, be default, he argues, and a market system must by definition reflect the morality of the society that conducts commerce via that system.
Globalization, for instance, is driven by what he calls "an unexamined and absolutist value system whose principles and unseen meaning it lays bare." He criticizes capitalist scientific technology, transnational trade apparatuses, NATO wars and an expanding prison regime, as symptoms of a "new totalitarianism cumulatively occupying the world and propelling civil and ecological breakdowns."Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy , 2002, which outlines this analysis, also explains "the shared life-grounds, public sectors and cross-cultural movement of the "'new resistance'", and systematically defines the moral compass and constitutional standards of a global life economy alternative."
A consistent theme is to argue strongly against any definition of the commons that excludes property controlled by the nation-state and refers only to atmosphere, oceans, genes and other "unowned" elements of the environment. To exclude terrestrial ecoregions, he argues, is to exclude biodiversity, watershed, river, and other resources that are under the sole purview of states to protect. This is in contrast to such definitions as are used in proposals like Global Resource Banking, that tend to refer to the commons only in terms of what is outside the control and jurisdiction of the nation-state. This is major point of tension between apolitical Greens and those engaged in left-wing politics to control state power - one not wholly resolved by green politics which has so far failed to fully control any nations.
McMurtry advocates a strict monetary policy that reinforces the actual value system of the society, opposes North American currency union , and has been a long standing member of the Canadian Committee On Monetary and Economic Reform , which often publishes and distributes his work.
He is considered by some to be a major figure in the evolution of global ethics, similar to stature to John Davies Humphries
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