Justin Horn

Justin Horn, Collegiate Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy

424 War Memorial Hall

370 Drillfield Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Justin Horn is a collegiate assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech. His research is primarily in metaethics, and he is especially interested in issues surrounding moral disagreement, evolutionary debunking arguments, and moral semantics.

Principal Areas of Research Focus

Metaethics
Ethical Theory
Biomedical Ethics

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, Washington University in St. Louis

Professional Roles

Ethics Bowl

Publications

Articles

“Does Moral Disagreement Pose a Semantic Challenge to Moral Realism?” Philosophia (2020) 48 (3):1059-1073.
“On Moral Objections to Moral Realism,” Journal of Value Inquiry, (2020) 54(2):345-354.
“Moral Realism, Fundamental Moral Disagreement, and Moral Reliability,” Journal of Value Inquiry, (2017) 51:363–381.
“Evolution and the Epistemological Challenge to Moral Realism,” in Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics, ed. Michael Ruse and Robert Richards. 2017: 114-128. Cambridge University Press.