Dr. Andrew Morgan Lecturer, Philosophy Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 275Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map andrew.morgan@uah.edu Biography Dr. Morgan studies the connections between expressive language, thought, and behavior. His research covers everything from athletes' self-talk to the disruptive social media posts of internet trolls. He brings this expertise both into the classroom and out to the community. In his spare time he works with the National Institutes of Health to train scientists to maintain ethical research practices, as well as with local businesses to help them cultivate caring and sustainable client relationships. In 2021 he was invited to speak at a roundtable discussion on environmental racism sponsored by the UAB School of Public Health. Curriculum Vitae Personal Website Education Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2017 M.A., Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, 2011 B.A., Humanities, Lee University, 2009 Expertise Philosophy of Language Moral Psychology Biomedical Ethics Environmental Philosophy Recent Publications “No harm, still foul: On the Effect-Independent Wrongness of Slurring,” with Ralph DiFranco, Journal of the APA (forthcoming). “When Doublespeak Goes Viral: A Speech Act Analysis of Internet Trolling,” Erkenntnis (forthcoming). “You shouldn’t have laughed! The ethics of derogatory amusement,” with Ralph DiFranco, in The Moral Psychology of Amusement edited by Brian Robinson, London: Rowman & Littlefield (2021). “Plato’s Revenge: Moral Deliberation as Dialogical Activity,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 100 (2019), pp. 69–89. “Hybrid Speech Acts: A Theory of Normative Thought and Language that ‘Has it Both Ways,’” European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 25 (2017), pp. 785–807. “Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Assertion,” Southwest Philosophy Review Vol. 33 (2017), pp. 95–103.
