Richard Joyce (philosopher)

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

He was born in New Forest, Hampshire, but while he was still a baby, the family moved to New Zealand. Joyce studied at the University of Auckland and made there in 1989, BA in Philosophy and Art History, 1991 M. A. with 1st class honors in philosophy. In 1995 he made ​​a second M. A. at Princeton University, where he in 1998 the Ph.D. ( Doctoral supervisors: Gil Harman and Gideon Rosen ) acquired. At the University of Sheffield he was 4 years a researcher of philosophy. 2002 - 2008 he was at the Australian National University in Canberra research assistant in philosophy. 2006 - 2010 he is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.

His main area of ​​work is the meta- ethics, in this he represents the fictionalism. Other professional interests include moral psychology, emotion psychology, rationality and evolutionary psychology. He is team leader of a research project entitled "The Evolution of the Social Brain. How Emotions and Moral Judgement Interact in the Generation of Cooperative Behaviour"

He is married and has two children.