Rupert Read

Rupert Read is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. His professional interest in environmental ethics has included book-length critiques of the ideology of ‘scientism’ (the view that there is know other way of knowing anything except science), as well as pioneering work on the Precautionary Principle (co-authored with Nassim Taleb). He has also published (co-authored) with Helena Norberg-Hodge, with Prof. Tim O’Riordan, with Prof. Jem Bendell, with Prof. Molly Scott Cato, and with Baroness Jenny Jones. He has debated in print with Noam Chomsky, Michael Dummett, Rob Hopkins, J.M. Coetzee and others.
Rupert was founding Chair of the UK-based post-growth think tank, Green House, and is a former Green Party of England & Wales elected councillor, spokesperson, European parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. He has been a national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, in which capacity he has appeared on most of the main current affairs platforms in the UK.