Rick continues to write about the relations between philosophy and literature as well as the legacy of existential philosophy (especially the work of Søren Kierkegaard). The main research project that he is currently finishing is an interdisciplinary book manuscript about emotional cognition and the notion of truthfulness in affective experience. This book engages with a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of human emotions, from phenomenology and analytic philosophy through several areas of cognitive science, and it will be completed within the next year. Among his other recent publications are a collection of essays about Henry David Thoreau as a major American philosopher, a chapter in an edited volume about existential themes in ancient Greek thought, and a few short works on illness, mortality, and healing.