Richard Holton is a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Peterhouse. Before that he taught at MIT, and before that at Monash, the ANU, Sheffield and Edinburgh. He earned an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University College, Oxford, did some graduate work at Nuffield College and the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, and then completed his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University. He works mainly in moral psychology and related areas, but also in ethics, philosophy of law and philosophy of language. He is the author of Willing, Wanting, Waiting, published by Oxford University Press.