Richard Price

Richard Price is the CEO and founder of Academia.edu, a social networking website for academics. Richard has a background in philosophy, having been a Prize Fellow of All Souls at Oxford University from 2004 to 2011. Richard also founded LiveOut.co.uk, a student property website, and PeopleRadar.com, a Facebook application that allowed users to rate photos.

Richard Price attended the University of Oxford where they obtained a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Richard then pursued a B.Phil in Philosophy and finally a Ph.D in the Philosophy of perception.

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