Richard Joyce (philosopher)

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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^[1] / moral skeptic^[2] and is known in particular for his defence of both moral fictionalism^[3] and moral error theory.^[4]

He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1998, and lectured at the University of Sheffield up 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.^[5]

His major works include The Myth of Morality (2001)^[6] and The Evolution of Morality (2006).^[7]

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 54391592 LCCN: nr98023819 ISNI: 0000 0001 1063 3942 GND: 142754730

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Name	Joyce, Richard
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Short description	British philosopher
Date of birth	1966
Place of birth	Hampshire, UK
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