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{{Infobox officeholder
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|name = Rupert Read
|name = Rupert Read
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|image = File:Rupert Read-IMG 4059.jpg
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|caption = Rupert Read campaigning in Cambridge during the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|general election of 2015]].
|caption = Rupert Read campaigning in Cambridge during the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|general election of 2015]].
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|office1 = [[Norwich City Council]]lor for Wensum Ward
|office1 = [[Norwich City Council]]lor for Wensum Ward
|term_start1 = 10 June 2004
|term_start1 = 10 June 2004
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|alma_mater = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
|alma_mater = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
|party = [[Green Party of England and Wales]]
|party = [[Green Party of England and Wales]]
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'''Rupert Read''' (born 1966) is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project.{{cite web |title=Climate Majority Project |url=https://climatemajorityproject.com/ |access-date=2023-10-26}} He is the author of several books on Wittgenstein, philosophy, and/or climate change, most recently Why ''Climate Breakdown Matters, Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos'', and ''Do You Want to Know the Truth?''{{cite web |title=Rupert Read Books |url=https://rupertread.net/books/ |website=RupertRead |date=November 2024 }} Until 2023, Read was a [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in philosophy at the [[University of East Anglia]][https://web.archive.org/web/20120305035105/http://www.uea.ac.uk/phi/People/Academic/Rupert+Read?mode=rebranded UEA Faculty page], Accessed 9 July 2009 (Archived from the [http://www.uea.ac.uk/phi/People/Academic/Rupert+Read?mode=rebranded original] 5 March 2012) where he was awarded – as Principal Investigator – [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] (AHRC) funding for two projects on "[[natural capital]]". His other major recent academic focus has been on the [[precautionary principle]], having contributed substantially to work co-authored with [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]] on applying the principle to questions of genetic modification of organisms. In further work, Read has theorised the utility of the precautionary principle in a wide range of areas, including: [[climate change]], [[Natural environment|the environment]], as well as [[Finance|financial]] and [[technology]] sectors.{{Cite journal|last1=Read|first1=Rupert|last2=O'Riordan|first2=Tim|date=3 September 2017|title=The Precautionary Principle Under Fire|journal=Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development|volume=59|issue=5|pages=4–15|doi=10.1080/00139157.2017.1350005|bibcode=2017ESPSD..59e...4R |s2cid=158589782|issn=0013-9157|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/65524/1/Accepted_manuscript.pdf}} He previously worked as a spokesperson for [[Extinction Rebellion]].
'''Rupert Read''' (born 1966) is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project.{{cite web |title=Climate Majority Project |url=https://climatemajorityproject.com/ |access-date=2023-10-26}} He is the author of several books on Wittgenstein, philosophy, and/or climate change, most recently Why ''Climate Breakdown Matters, Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos'', and ''Do You Want to Know the Truth?''{{cite web |title=Rupert Read Books |url=https://rupertread.net/books/ |website=RupertRead |date=November 2024 }} Until 2023, Read was a [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in philosophy at the [[University of East Anglia]][https://web.archive.org/web/20120305035105/http://www.uea.ac.uk/phi/People/Academic/Rupert+Read?mode=rebranded UEA Faculty page], Accessed 9 July 2009 (Archived from the [http://www.uea.ac.uk/phi/People/Academic/Rupert+Read?mode=rebranded original] 5 March 2012) where he was awarded – as Principal Investigator – [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] (AHRC) funding for two projects on "[[natural capital]]". His other major recent academic focus has been on the [[precautionary principle]], having contributed substantially to work co-authored with [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]] on applying the principle to questions of genetic modification of organisms. In further work, Read has theorised the utility of the precautionary principle in a wide range of areas, including: [[climate change]], [[Natural environment|the environment]], as well as [[Finance|financial]] and [[technology]] sectors.{{Cite journal|last1=Read|first1=Rupert|last2=O'Riordan|first2=Tim|date=3 September 2017|title=The Precautionary Principle Under Fire|journal=Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development|volume=59|issue=5|pages=4–15|doi=10.1080/00139157.2017.1350005|bibcode=2017ESPSD..59e...4R |s2cid=158589782|issn=0013-9157|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/65524/1/Accepted_manuscript.pdf}} He previously worked as a spokesperson for [[Extinction Rebellion]].
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==Academic career==
==Academic career==
{{Infobox philosopher
{{Infobox philosopher
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|region = Western Philosophy
|region = Western Philosophy
|era = [[Contemporary philosophy]]
|era = [[Contemporary philosophy]]
|name = Rupert Read
|name = Rupert Read
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|death_date =
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|school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
|school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
|main_interests = [[Philosophy and literature|Philosophy of literature]], Philosophy and film, [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[Philosophy of science]]
|main_interests = [[Philosophy and literature|Philosophy of literature]], Philosophy and film, [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[Philosophy of science]]
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Read studied [[Philosophy, politics and economics]] (PPE) at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], before undertaking postgraduate studies in the United States at [[Princeton University]] and [[Rutgers University]] (where he gained his doctorate). Influenced by [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]'s philosophy, his PhD involved "a Wittgensteinian exploration of the relationship between [[Saul Kripke|Kripke]]'s '[[Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language|quus]]' problem and [[Nelson Goodman]]'s '[[New riddle of induction|grue]]' problem."
Read studied [[Philosophy, politics and economics]] (PPE) at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], before undertaking postgraduate studies in the United States at [[Princeton University]] and [[Rutgers University]] (where he gained his doctorate). Influenced by [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]'s philosophy, his PhD involved "a Wittgensteinian exploration of the relationship between [[Saul Kripke|Kripke]]'s '[[Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language|quus]]' problem and [[Nelson Goodman]]'s '[[New riddle of induction|grue]]' problem."
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