Richard Joyce, born in 1966, is a British-Australian-New Zealand philosopher known for his contributions to the fields of meta-ethics and moral psychology. He was born in England and raised in New Zealand, received his PhD from Princeton University in 1998 while studying under Gilbert Harman, held positions at the University of Sheffield, the Australian National University and the University of Sydney, and has been Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington since 2010. He has developed and defended what has come to be known as an evolutionary debunking argument concerning moral judgments.
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Associated With: Evolutionary Debunking Argument, Evolutionary debunking
Joyce has developed and defended what has come to be known as an "evolutionary debunking argument," according to which the evolutionary origin of human moral thinking might give us cause to doubt our moral judgments.
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