Assistant Professor of Instruction
Phone: 903.566.7371
Email: jmorton@uttyler.edu
Department: Political Science
Justin Morton
Degrees
- BA | Philosophy and English | Stephen F. Austin State University
- MA | Philosophy | Texas Tech University
- PhD | Philosophy | University of Texas at Austin
Biography
I am Assistant Professor of Instruction at 黑料专区-Tyler, where I am also Pre-Law Advisor and a member of the Center for Ethics.
My research is in metaethics: questions about the foundation of morality and how we come to have moral knowledge. Most recently I have been working at that field鈥檚 intersection with philosophy of religion. I am interested in questions like: Is God the foundation of morality? Does morality require such a divine foundation? What about our moral knowledge鈥搃s it only possible to have a good sense of what morality requires if God is there to guide us?
Publications
- How Theists Can Answer the 鈥淲hy Be Moral?鈥� Question: An Indirect Reason-Generation
Account
- Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming
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- Philosophical Quarterly, 2025
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- Faith and Philosophy, 2022.
- Normative Principles and the Nature of Mind-Dependence
- Philosophical Studies (2022)
- Normativity in Metaethics (with David Copp)
- In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021)
- Grounding the Normative: A Problem for Structured Non-Naturalism
- Philosophical Studies (2020)
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- Faith and Philosophy 鈥�(2019)
- Grounding Thick Normative Facts
- Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2019)
- When Do Replies to the Evolutionary Debunking Argument Against Moral Realism Beg the
Question?
- Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2019)
- A New Evolutionary Debunking Argument Against Moral Realism
- The Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2016)
- Parsimony and the Argument from Queerness (with Eric Sampson)
- Res Philosophica (2014)
- I am currently co-authoring a book on how divine sovereignty impacts the nature of moral facts. (If God is in full control of everything, does that mean he created morality?)