Ralph Walker is a leading academic at Magdalen College

Magdalen College

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, University of Oxford

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, where he has been from 1972. From 1993-2003 he was a delegate to Oxford University Press

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 and from 2000-2006 he was Head of the Humanities Division

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 at Oxford, one of the most senior posts at the University. He retired from the position of Vice-President of Magdalen College in 2009, but continues as Senior Tutor in Philosophy, specialising in Ancient Philosophy and Kant. He lectures in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

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, normally on Kant.

He has written on Kant

KANT

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 and the Coherence Theory of Truth

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. His most recent work, Kant, was released in 1998, but he has contributed to numerous publications and academic journals.