Richard Joyce (philosopher)

Richard Joyce (born 1966) is a British-New Zealand moral philosopher, known for his contributions to the field of meta-ethics. Joyce is a prominent moral anti-realist<ref name=Joyce, Richard "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy">"Moral Anti-Realism".</ref> / moral skeptic^[1] and is known in particular for his defence of both moral fictionalism^[2] and moral error theory.^[3]

He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1998, and lectured at the University of Sheffield until 2001, before taking up a research fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2006 he took up an international senior research fellowship at the University of Sydney, and in 2010 he accepted a professorship at Victoria University of Wellington.^[4]

His major works include The Myth of Morality (2001)^[5] and The Evolution of Morality (2006).^[6]

References

1. "Moral Skepticism".
2. "Fictionalism".
3. "Supplement to Moral Anti-Realism".
4. "Brief Biography".
5. "The Myth of Morality".
6. "The Evolution of Morality".