Richard Joyce

Richard Joyce

Richard Joyce (* 1966 ) is a philosopher in Australia .

He was born in New Forest , Hampshire , but the family moved to New Zealand while he was a baby . Joyce studied at the University of Auckland , where she earned her BA in philosophy and art history in 1989, and an MA with 1st class honors in philosophy in 1991 . In 1995 he did a second MA at Princeton University , where he received his Ph.D. (PhD supervisors: Gil Harman and Gideon Rosen ). At the University of Sheffield he was a research fellow in philosophy for 4 years. From 2002-2008 he was a research assistant in philosophy at the Australian National University in Canberra . 2006–2010 he is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney .

His main field of work is meta-ethics , in which he represents fictionalism . Other professional interests are moral psychology , emotional psychology , rationality, and evolutionary psychology . He is team leader of a research project entitled "The Evolution of the Social Brain: How Emotions and Moral Judgment Interact in the Generation of Cooperative Behavior."

He is married and has two children.

Works

• The Myth of Morality . Cambridge University Press , 2001 ( online [accessed September 8, 2014]).
• The Evolution of Morality . MIT Press , 2006 ( online [accessed September 8, 2014]).
• Richard Joyce, Simon Kirchin (Eds.): A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie’s Moral Error Theory . Springer Press , 2010, ISBN 978-90-481-3338-3 (English).

Web links

• Associate Professor of Philosophy . University of Sydney, archived from the original onJuly 26, 2008; accessed on September 8, 2014(English, original website no longer available). 
• Homepage of the professorship in Canberra
• Curriculum vitae . (PDF 42 kB)University of Sydney, archived from the original onJuly 5, 2010; accessed on September 8, 2014(English, original website no longer available).