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 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.^[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".