Rupert Read

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• 2024

  The Climate Majority Project: Setting the Stage for a Mainstream, Urgent Climate Movement

  Read, R. (ed.), Kavanagh, L. (ed.) & Bell, R. (ed.), 4 Jan 2024, London Publishing Partnership. 216 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2023

  Living in truth in a time of ecological ‘emergency’ and emergence: Vaclav Havel as eco-guru

  Read, R., 11 Jan 2023, In: The Ecological Citizen. 6, 1, p. 52-59 8 p., epub-075.

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• 2022

  Critical Notice: Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (Perspectiva, 2021). 2 volumes, 1500 pages, no price

  Read, R., Oct 2022, In: Philosophical Investigations. 45, 4, p. 528-539 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Why Climate Breakdown Matters

  Read, R., 11 Aug 2022, Bloomsbury. 224 p. (Why Philosophy Matters)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2021

  A Timeline of The Plague Year: A Comprehensive Record of the UK Government’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

  Sinclair, I. & Read, R., 15 Apr 2021

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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• Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

  Bendell, J. (ed.) & Read, R. (ed.), Jun 2021, Polity Press. 224 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• How we failed to imagine Covid-19

  Read, R., Mar 2021, In: Crisis Response. 16, 1, p. 46-49 4 p.

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• Parents For A Future: How Loving Our Children Can Prevent Climate Collapse

  Read, R., 21 Jan 2021, UEA Publishing Project.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2020

  Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the inside

  Read, R., 2020, Melbourne: Simplicity Institute. 228 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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• Extinction Rebellion and environmental activism - the XR interviews

  Burgess, C. & Read, R., 16 Dec 2020, From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion. Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 171-180 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• The Ecological Economics Revolution: Looking at Economics from the Vantage-Point of Wittgenstein’s and Kuhn’s Philosophies

  Read, R., 2020, Wittgensteinian (adj.): Looking at things from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy. Wuppuluri, S. & da Costa, N. (eds.). Springer

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• This civilization is finished: Time to build an ecological civilization

  Read, R., 1 Apr 2020, In: The Ecological Citizen. 3, 2, p. 157–162 6 p.

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• Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations

  Read, R., 24 Nov 2020, Routledge. 404 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2019

  Can Sentences Self-Refer: Gödel and the Liar

  Read, R. & Greiffenhagen, C., 2019, Festschrift for Wes Sharrock: Ethnographic Studies. Vol. 16. p. 181-201 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Fully Automated Luxury Barbarism

  Mariqueo-Russell, A. & Read, R., Nov 2019, In: Radical Philosophy. 2.06, 2019, p. 108-110 3 p.

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• Geoengineering as a response to the climate crisis: Right road or disasterous diversion?

  Paul, H. & Read, R., Apr 2019, Facing up to Climate Reality. Foster, J. (ed.). London Publishing Partnership, p. 109-130

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Introduction: Looking for hope between disaster and catastrophe

  Heatley, B., Read, R. & Foster, J., 5 Apr 2019, Facing up to Climate Reality. Foster, J. (ed.). London Publishing Partnership, p. 1-12 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Introduction: Post-Truth?

  Read, R. & Ucan, T., 8 Jul 2019, In: Nordic Wittgenstein Review. p. 5-22 18 p.

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• Making the best of climate disasters: On the need for a localised and localising response

  Read, R. & Steele, K., Apr 2019, Facing up to climate reality. London Publishing Partnership, p. 53-68 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Psychology and Non-sense: Schizophrenese as Example

  Read, R. & Allesøe Christensen, B., 18 Oct 2019, The Second Cognitive Revolution: A Tribute to Rom Harré. Christensen, B. A. (ed.). Springer, p. 161–172 12 p.

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• This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

  Read, R. & Alexander, S., Jun 2019, Melbourne: Simplicity Institute. 104 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Two Conceptions of “Community”: As Defined by What It Is Not, or as Defined by What It Is

  Read, R., 18 Sep 2019, Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond. Gleeson, A. & Taylor, C. (eds.). Routledge, p. 215-228 14 p.

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• What is new in our time? The truth in 'post truth': A response to Finlayson

  Read, R., 8 Jul 2019, In: Nordic Wittgenstein Review. 2019, p. 81-96 16 p.

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• Why ‘Swampman’ would not even get as far as thinking it was Davidson: On the spatio-temporal basis of Davidson's conjuring trick

  Read, R. & Allesøe, B., Oct 2019, In: Philosophical Investigations. 42, 2, p. 350-366 17 p.

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• ‘Private Language’ and the Second Person: Wittgenstein and Løgstrup ‘Versus’ Levinas?

  Read, R., 2019, Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind. Palgrave Macmillan

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2018

  A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

  Read, R., 22 Oct 2018, 1 ed. Routledge. 232 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• A Micro ‘Case Study’: Critiquing the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

  Read, R. & Greaves, T., 14 Dec 2018, Debating Nature's Value: The Concept of 'Natural Capital'. Anderson, V. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A Wittgensteinian/Austinian qualified defense of Ryle on know-how

  Read, R., 2018, In: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 39, 2, p. 405-429 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Can There Be a Logic of Grief?: Why Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty Say ‘Yes’

  Read, R., 7 Jun 2018, Wittgenstein and Phenomenology. Kuusela, O., Ometita, M. & Ųcan, T. (eds.). Routledge

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• Must Do Better: Book Review: Peter Singer’s The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically and William MacAskill’s Doing good better: Effective Altruism and a radical new way to make a difference

  Read, R., 1 Feb 2018, In: Radical Philosophy. 2, 01, p. 106-109 4 p.

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• This civilisation is finished: So what is to be done?

  Read, R., 10 Dec 2018, 19 p. (Institute for Leadership and Sustainability).

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• Voluntary simplicity strongly backed by all three main normative-ethical traditions

  Read, R., Alexander, S. & Garrett, J., 1 Apr 2018, In: Ethical Perspectives. 25, 1, p. 87-116 30 p.

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• Wittgenstein as Unreliable Narrator/Unreliable Author

  Read, R., 4 Jun 2018, Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism. Falcato, A. & Cardiello, A. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 49-70 22 p.

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• 2017

  Beyond just justice – Creating space for a future-care ethic

  Makoff, R. & Read, R., Jul 2017, In: Philosophical Investigations. 40, 3, p. 223–256 24 p.

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• Grammar

  Hutchinson, P. & Read, R., 26 Jan 2017, Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism. Bloomsbury Academic, (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism).

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• How to Think about the Climate Crisis, via Precautionary Reasoning: A Wittgensteinian Case-study in Overcoming Scientism

  Read, R., 7 Jun 2017, Wittgenstein and Scientism. Beale, J. & Kidd, I. J. (eds.). Taylor and Francis, p. 133-151 19 p.

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• On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us

  Read, R., 24 Apr 2017, In: Global Discourse. 7, 1, p. 149-167 19 p.

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• The Augustinian Picture and Its Counter-Picture: PI 1 and PI 43 as Twins

  Read, R., Oct 2017, Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: New Essays on §§1-88. Bermon, E. & Narboux, J-P. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer, p. 41-52 12 p.

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• The future: Compassion, complacency, or contempt?

  Read, R., 18 Apr 2017, In: Global Discourse. 7, 1, p. 188-191 4 p.

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• The Precautionary Principle Under Fire

  Read, R. & O'Riordan, T., Aug 2017, In: Environment. 59, 5, p. 4-15 12 p.

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• Understanding, Safeguarding and Strengthening the Precautionary Principle, in the context of the Brexit negotiation

  Read, R. & O'Riordan, T., 25 Oct 2017, All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

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• What Kind of Creatures Are We? By Noam Chomsky Columbia University Press: New York, 2016. 167pp., £17 ISBN: 9780231175968 Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics By Chris Knight Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2016. 285 pp., $30 ISBN: 9780300221466

  Read, R. & Mariqueo-Russell, A., Oct 2017, In: Philosophy. 92, 4, p. 660-668 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2016

  Wittgenstein and the Illusion of ‘Progress’: On Real Politics and Real Philosophy in a World of Technocracy

  Read, R., Jul 2016, In: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. 78, p. 265-284 20 p.

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• 2015

  An empirical refutation of Pareto-optimality?

  Read, R., 2015, In: Capitalism Nature Socialism. 26, 4, p. 236-244 9 p.

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• Anthropogenic climate change and precaution

  Norman, J., Bar-Yam, Y., Read, R. & Taleb, N., 2015, In: Issues in Science and Technology. 31, 4, p. 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

• Green economics versus growth economics: The case of Thomas Piketty

  Read, R., 1 Jan 2015, In: Radical Philosophy. 189, p. 9-13 5 p.

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• Metaphysics is Metaphorics: Philosophical and Ecological Reflections from Wittgenstein and Lakoff on the Pros and Cons of Linguistic Creativity

  Read, R., 18 Nov 2015, Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language. Grève, S. S. & Mácha, J. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, Vol. Part V. p. 264-297 34 p.

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• Review: Timothy Shanahan (2014), Philosophy and Blade Runner, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 240pp

  Goodenough, J. & Read, R., 2015, In: Film-Philosophy. 19, 4 p.

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• The tale Parfit tells: Analytic metaphysics of personal identity vs. Wittgensteinian film and literature

  Read, R., Apr 2015, In: Philosophy and Literature. 39, 1, p. 128-153 26 p.

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• Where value resides: Making ecological value possible

  Greaves, T. & Read, R., Aug 2015, In: Environmental Ethics. 37, 3, p. 321-340

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