Richard received his PhD from Princeton University in 1998 (under the supervision of Gil Harman and Gideon Rosen), and then from 1997 to 2001 he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK. He joined the RSSS Philosophy Program as a Research Fellow in 2002. In 2006 he was awarded an International Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney. For 2007 and 2008 he will continue to split his time 50/50 between Sydney and Canberra.

Richard is presently team leader of an ARC Discovery Project, along with Kim Sterelny (ANU) and Fiona Cowie (Caltech): "The Evolution of the Social Brain: How Emotions and Moral Judgement Interact in the Generation of Cooperative Behaviour."

Email: rjjoyce at coombs.anu.edu.au

More information about Richard's work, information about his books, links to online papers, etc., can be found at his homepage.