Rupert Read

Rupert Read
Rupert Read campaigning in Cambridge during the general election of 2015.
Norwich City Councillor for Wensum Ward
In office 10 June 2004 – 5 May 2011
Preceded by	(new seat)
Succeeded by	Lucy Galvin
Personal details
Born	1966
Political party	Green Party of England and Wales
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Religion	Quaker

Rupert Read (born 1966) is an academic and a Green Party politician in England. He is Chair of the Green House thinktank, Green Party spokesperson for transport, East of England party co-ordinator and a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.

Read comments regularly through the Eastern Daily Press 'One World Column'. In his regular appearances in the local and national press, he speaks on sustainable transport, green economics and social justice.

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 Kripke's 'quus' problem and Nelson Goodman's 'grue' problem."

He is Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, specialising in philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and environmental philosophy, previously having taught at Manchester. He has contributed to many books, including, in 2002, Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolution, on the work of Thomas Kuhn, and, in 2005, Film As Philosophy: Essays in Cinema After Wittgenstein And Cavell. His book Philosophy for Life: Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture, was released in July 2007.