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Ralph Walker
Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College
ralph.walker@magd.ox.ac.uk
See page on Magdalen College website
Area of Specialisation:
Epistemology
Kant
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Religion
College:
Magdalen College
Membership Type:
Emeritus Faculty Members
Career and Education
Publications
Career and Education
2000 - 2006
Head of the Humanities Division, Oxford University
1995 - 2000
Member of the General Board, Oxford University, Chairman 1999-2000
1993 - 2003
Delegate of Oxford University Press
1987 - 1989
Chairman of the Literae Humaniores Board
1986 - 1987
Chairman of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty
1984 - 1985
Junior Proctor, University of Oxford
1972 - present
Fellow of Magdalen College
1968 - 1972
Fellow of Merton College
1970
D.Phil
1966
B.Phil. Oxford
1964
BA McGill
Publications
Books
Kant and the Moral Law
, Orion, 1998
The Coherence Theory of Truth
, Routledge, 1988
Kant
, Routledge, 1978
Publications
"
Kant on the Number of Worlds
"
“Kant and Transcendental Arguments”, in P. Guyer, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
(CUP, 2006)
“A Problem about Truth”, in R. Schantz, ed.,
What is Truth?
(de Gruyter, 2002)
EThe Coherence Theory”, in M.P. Lynch, ed.,
The Nature of Truth
(MIT/Bradford, 2001)
“Joachim on the Nature of Truth”, in W.J. Mander, ed.,
Anglo-American Idealism 1865-1927
(Greenwood, 2000)
“Induction and Transcendental Arguments”, in R. Stern, ed.,
Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects
(OUP, 1999)
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