Academic CV

Last updated on March 24, 2023.

Rupert Read
Department of Philosophy
School of Philosophy, Politics and Languages
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

Email

r [dot] read [at] uea [dot] ac [dot] uk

Websites

• rupertread.net
• www.uea.ac.uk/philosophy/people/profile/r-read
• greenhousethinktank.org/
• thinkingfilmcollective.blogspot.co.uk
• ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

• Ecological and Political Philosophy (Rawlsian liberalism, the Precautionary Principle)
• Philosophy of Language (Wittgenstein) 
• Philosophy of the Sciences (environmental sciences, ‘social sciences’, mental health/illness)
• Philosophy and Film (especially film and literature as philosophy)

EDUCATION

Advanced Certificate of Higher Education Practice, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, 1998-1999.

PhD in Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 1988-95. Practices without Foundations?: Sceptical readings of Wittgenstein and Goodman.  Rutgers University, NJ. Supervisor: Barry Loewer. Successful thesis defence [no corrections]: Ap. 27 ’95; Degree awarded Oct. 2 ’95.

First Class B.A. Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford University, Balliol College, 1984-87.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• Visiting Fellowship for the Spring and Summer terms of 1991 at the European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy.
• Admission with S.C.T. Tuition Grant to Summer School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College NH, 1992.
• Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University NJ, 1988-1991, 1992-1993. 
• U.K. Director, Society for Philosophy and Geography, 1995-1998.
• Associate Editor, Philosophy and Geography, 1995-2005.
• Co-organiser of the annual Mind and Society Seminars at Manchester and Cambridge, 1997-2008 (funded by the British Academy since 2000, and also by the Mind Association in 2003).
• Guest Editor, Ethnographic Studies 3 (1998), Ecopolitics Online Journal 1(3) (2009), Wittgenstein Nordic Review special issue (2019).
• Appointed to Editorial Board of Philosophical Psychology, 2000-2021.
• Accepted into membership of Institute of Learning and Teaching, 2000.
• Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago IL, Winter Quarter 2001.
• Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Leave Award August-December 2001.
• Conference Organiser, ‘The legacy of Thomas Kuhn: new work’, University of East Anglia, 30^th August 2002 (funded by Analysis Trust, MIND, and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science).
• British Academy award funding closed conference on ‘Accounting for literary language: an international interdisciplinary symposium on Wittgenstein and literature’, University of East Anglia, 1-2 September 2002.
• Promotion to Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia, Spring 2003.
• AHRB research funding as co-investigator on the project, ‘The role of the concept of ‘social practice’ in philosophy and sociology of maths’. (Co-awardees: Wes Sharrock and Christian Greiffenhagen), 2004-2005.
• Appointed to Cambridge Wittgenstein Archive Advisory Board, 2004-2015.
• Appointed to Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Economics 2005-2009.
• Appointed Associate Editor of Philosophical Investigations 2005-.
• Promotion to Associate Professor, University of East Anglia, Summer 2007.
• Appointed an affiliate Faculty member of the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, 2010-2020.
• Appointed to the Steering Group for a research project on ‘Institutional mechanisms for the future’ at the World Wildlife Fund, 2010-2012.
• Appointed to the editorial board of Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2011-2022.
• Conference Organiser, Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy, International Society for Environmental Ethics, University of East Anglia, 12-14^th June 2013 (funded by MIND, Aristotelian Society, and Analysis Trust).
• Included as a fellow in successful ESRC bid, Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, 2015. 
• Principal Investigator, AHRC Research Network award on ‘Valuing nature’, 2016-2018. 
• AHRC follow-on funding for ‘Taking the debate on nature’s value to the valuers’, 2019-2020 (AHRC reference: AH/S00517X/1).
• Shortlisted for International Society for Environmental Ethics’ 2020 Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy.

Journal manuscript referee for: Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Contemporary Political Theory, CRISPP, Dialectica, Ethical Theory and Practice, History of the Human Sciences, HOPOS, Hume Studies, Inquiry, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Philosophical Research, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Investigations, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy East and West, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy Psychology Psychiatry, Political Theory, Rethinking History, Social Studies of Science, Sustainable Development, Synthese, Theoria, Futures, and Theory Culture and Society.

Book proposal referee for: Ashgate, Blackwell, Brill, Lexington Books, Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Polity, and Routledge.

TEACHING

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy, School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, 1997 onwards.

• Units taught: “Advanced Literature and Philosophy” (MA Course, part), “Advanced Philosophical Problems” (dissertation unit), “Advanced Philosophy of Social Science” (MA course), “Aesthetics” (part), “Analytical Philosophy”, “Certainty and Uncertainty in Environmental Science and Policy” (MA course), “Critical theories of the Modern Self” (MA course, part), “Film and Literature as Philosophy”, “Introduction to Philosophy” (part), “Mental Health”, “Michel Foucault”, “Nietzsche and twentieth century Continental Philosophy”, “Philosophy and Literature”, “Philosophy and Other Subjects”, “Philosophical issues in Feminism”, “Philosophy of Politics and Economics”, “Philosophy of Religion”, “Philosophy of the Sciences”, “Political Philosophy”, “Theories of society and politics” (MA course, part), “Topics in Political Philosophy” (MA course, part), and “Wittgenstein and twentieth century”.
• Curriculum development: substantial; full details available on request. Including: co-creation of new ‘Environmental Sciences and Humanities’ master’s degree, in 2011. 
• PhD supervision and examination: 
• Currently first supervisor for five PhD students. Topics: “A critique of dysfunction analyses of psychopathology”, “Cavell and Wittgenstein on rules”, “The aesthetical politics of climate”, “Music: a Wittgensteinian view”, and “A liberatory philosophy of adaptive preferences”.
• Eleven PhD students graduated. Topics: “Attention”; “A Wittgensteinian critique of International Relations Theory”; “Self- consciousness and self-reference”; “Not in Mauthner’s sense: An anarchic reading of the Tractatus“; “The philosophy of the films of Lars von Trier”; “Rawls and epistemology”; “Confronting climate crisis: A framework for understanding the criteria for addressing dangerous climate change”, “Wittgenstein and Sartre on totality”; “A philosophy of the commons”; “A philosophy of imaginaries”, “The Madyamaka and the New Wittgenstein: parallel lines”.
• Studentships: Three of my PhD students have received AHRB/C studentships; nine have received UEA studentships or bursaries. 
• Dissertation panels: Several students in Literature and Film, as well as in Philosophy.
• External PhD examination: Edinburgh, Essex, Oxford, Kent, Åbo (Finland), and Helsinki (Finland).

• Recent administrative experience: 

• Headship of the School of Philosophy for 3.5 years.
• Directorship of the Philosophy and Literature joint degree programme.
• Directorship of the Philosophy degree programme.
• Co- Directorship of the MA in Social Philosophy.
• Creator and Course Director of the interdisciplinary MA/MSc in Environmental Science and Humanities.
• Membership of the Faculty of Humanities Executive. 
• Originated and ran Philosophy Faculty Forum and UEA Wittgenstein Workshop. 
• Served on the UEA Assembly Standing Committee.  

Lecturer in Philosophy, Philosophy Dept., Manchester University, 1996-7.

Lecturer in Sociology and Philosophy, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1995-6.

Instructor, English and Philosophy Depts., Rutgers University, Sept. 1993 – June 1995.

Instructor, Philosophy Dept., Rutgers, May 1990 – July 1991.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Crary, A. & Read, R. (eds.) (2000). The New Wittgenstein. London & New York: Routledge.

• Contributors: Stanley Cavell, David R. Cerbone, James Conant, Cora Diamond, David H. Finkelstein, Juliet Floyd, P. M. S. Hacker, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, Martin Stone, and Edward Witherspoon.
• Reviews: Journal of the History Philosophy 39(3) by Anton Alterman (2001); Philosophy in Review 22(3) by Tracy Bowell (2002); Philosophy 78(3) by Lars Herzberg (2003); Estudios de Filosofía 5 by Pamela Lastres (2003); Mind 114(453) by Denis McManus (2005); Philosophical Investigations by H. O. Mounce (2001); European Journal of Philosophy 9(3) by Ian Proops (2001); Common Knowledge 9(2) by Anthony Rudd (2003).
• According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited over 700 times.

Read, R. & Richman, K. A. (eds.) (2000). The New Hume Debate. London & New York: Routledge.

• Contributors: Barry Stroud, Galen Strawson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John P. Wright, Simon Blackburn, Edward Craig, Martin Bell, Daniel Flage, and Anne Jaap Jacobson.
• Reviews: Journal of the History of Philosophy 41(1) by Paul Russell (2003); Hume Studies 28(1) by Corliss G. Swain (2002); Philosophy 77(299) by Jane O’Grady (2002)
• Enlarged paperback second edition appeared in 2007. 
• According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited over 200 times.

Sharrock, W. & Read, R. (2002). Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Polity.

• Reviews: Philosophical Books 44 by J. M. Preston (2003); Philosophy in Review 24(1) by P. Wrzesniewski (2004).
• Korean translation published in 2005. 
• According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited over 250 times.

Read, R. & Goodenough, J. (eds.) (2005). Film as Philosophy: Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell. New York: Palgrave MacMillan

• Contributors: Nancy Bauer, Simon Critchley, Simon Glendinning, Phil Hutchinson, Stuart Klawans, Andrew Klevan, Stephen Mulhall, David Rudrum.
• Reviews: The Philosophers’ Magazine 35(91) by Julian Baggini (2006); Film-Philosophy 11(3) by Daniel Barnett (2007); The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 15(1) by Lisa Trahair (2007); Scope: An online journal of film and television studies 10 by Vincent Gaine (2008).
• Farsi translation published in 2012.
• According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited over 150 times.

Read, R. (2007). Philosophy for Life: Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture. M. A. Lavery (ed.). London & New York: Continuum.

• Reviews: Metapsychology 13(3) by Marko Zlomislic (2009).

Read, R. (2007). Applying Wittgenstein. L. Cook (ed.). London & New York: Continuum.

• Reviews: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online) by Colin Johnston (2008); Philosophical Investigation 32(1) by Duncan Richter (2008); Philosophical Perspectives in Clinical Psychology (website) by Richard G. T. Gipps (2008).

Hutchinson, P.; Read, R. & Sharrock, W. (2008). There is No Such Thing as Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch. Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

• Reviews: Philosophical Investigations 33(2) by Carolyn Wilde (2010); Philosophy of the Social Sciences 41(2) by Patrick J. J. Phillips (2011); Contemporary Sociology 39(3) by Steven Lukes; Analysis 69(4) by Katherine J. Morris (2009); History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 31(3/4) by Dean Rickles (2009); Metapsychology Online 13(31) by Gutav Jahoda (2009); Czech Sociological Review 46(4) by Martin Paleček (2010); Anthropology in Action 18(3) by Hayder Al-Mohammad (2011).
• According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited over 150 times.

Read, R. & Lavery, M. A. (eds.). (2011). Beyond The Tractatus Wars: The New Wittgenstein Debate. New York: Routledge.

• Contributors: Silver Bronzo, James Conant, Ed Dain, Rob Deans, Warren Goldfarb, Oskari Kuusela, A. W. Moore, Peter Sulllivan, Roger M. White.
• Reviews: Philosophical Investigations 36(1) by Genia Schönbaumsfeld (2012); Philosophy 89(1) by Hans-Johann Glock (2014); The Heythrop Journal 54(4) by Terrance Klein (2013); British Wittgenstein Society (online) by Derek McDougall (2011).

Read, R. (2012). Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the ‘Scientific Method’. S. Summers (ed.). Farnham, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

• Reviews: Philosophical Investigations 36(3) by Duncan Richter (2013).

Read, R. (2012). A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes. Plymouth: Lexington Books.

• Reviews: British Wittgenstein Society (online) by Derek McDougall (2012).

Read, R. (2019). A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment. New York & Oxon, UK: Routledge.

• Reviews: Philosophical Investigations 43(3) by Britt Harrison (2019); Nordic Wittgenstein Review 8(1-2) by Mio Lindman (2019); Film-Philosophy 26(1) by Rong Wan; Cinema Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 12 by Maria Irene Aparicio (2020).

Read, R. & Alexander, S. (2019). This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire—and what lies beyond. Melbourne: Simplicity Institute.

• This book was written for a non-academic audience. It contains a discussion of how we ought to respond to the increasing likelihood of some level of climate breakdown.
• Newspaper reviews: Die Zeit and The Morning Star. 
• Reviewed in blogs and discussed on podcasts.
• Translated into German and Spanish. French translation forthcoming.
• Chapter one has been translated into Chinese, and is available to read here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JVM2ID9kpuOLcGa8-gHlvQ .

Read, R. & Alexander, S. (2020). Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside. Melbourne: Simplicity Institute.

• This book was written for a non-academic audience. It contains a collection of essays about the state of the UK environmental movement written from my perspective as a former spokesperson of Extinction Rebellion UK.
• Reviewed in blogs and discussed on podcasts.

Read, R. (2020). Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations. New York & London: Routledge. 

• Reviews: European Journal of Psychoanalysis 9(1) by Hannes Nykänen (2022).

Read, R. (2021). Parents for a Future: How Loving our Children can Prevent Climate Collapse. Norwich, UK: UEA Publishing Project.

• This book combines philosophical arguments with empirical research on climate.
• German and Dutch translations forthcoming.
• Reviewed in blogs and discussed on podcasts.

Sinclair, I. & Read, R. (2021). A Timeline of the Plague Year: A Comprehensive Record of the UK Government’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis. J. Booth (ed.). Self-published.

Bendell, J. & Read, R. (eds.). (2021). Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos. Cambridge, UK & Medford, MA: Polity Press.

• Contributors: Tereza Čajková, Katie Carr, Gauthier Chapelle, Jonathan Gosling, Sean Kelly, Joanna Macy, Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Skeena Rathor, Daniel Rodary, Pablo Servigne, Charlotte Simpson, Dino Siwek, Matthew Slater, Sharon Stein, Raphaël Stevens, Rene Suša, Adrian Tait, Charlotte von Bülow.
• Reviewed in blogs and discussed on podcasts.

Read, R. (2022). Collaborations: Joint Writings on Ecology, Economy and Society. F. M. Scavelli. Self-published.

• This eBook was written for a non-academic audience. It contains a collection of my writings about the climate and ecological emergency and how we ought to respond to it.

Read, R. (2022). Why Climate Breakdown Matters. London, UK & New York: Bloomsbury.

• Reviewed in blogs and discussed on podcasts.

Read, R. (2022). Do You Want To Know The Truth?. Melbourne: Simplicity Institute.

• This book was written for a non-academic audience. It contains a series of articles on the climate crisis.
• Reviewed in blogs and discussed on podcasts.

PAPERS (selected)

Read, R. (1995). The unstatability of Kripkean scepticisms. Philosophical Papers, 24(1), 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568649509506520

Read, R. (1995). ‘The real philosophical discovery’: A reply to Jolley’s ‘Philosophical Investigations 133: Wittgenstein and the end of philosophy?’. Philosophical Investigations, 18(4), 362-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.1995.tb00337.x

Rupert, R. (1995). On the nature and centrality of the concept of ‘practice’ among Quakers. Quaker Religious Thought, 86, 33-39. Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol86/iss1/4 

Guetti, J. & Read, R. (1996). Acting from rules: “Internal relations” versus “logical existentialism”. International Studies in Philosophy, 28(2), 43-62. https://doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil199628273  

Read, R. (1996). Goodman’s Hume. Diálogos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 31(67), 95-121.

Read, R. (1996). On circles of concepts in Goodman and Quine. Diálogos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 31(68), 23-28.

Read, R. (1996). Is forgiveness possible? The concrete cases of Thoreau and Rushdie (on)(writing) the unforgivable. Reason Papers, 21, 15-35.

Read, R. (1997). The career of “internal relations” in Wittgenstein’s work. Wittgenstein Studies, 4(2).

Read, R. (1998). The riddle of the new riddle: Goodmanic method applied to Goodman. The Journal of Thought, 33(2), 49-73.

Read, R. & Guetti, J. (1999). Meaningful consequences. The Philosophical Forum, 30(4), 289-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/0031-806X.00020

Read, R. (2000). Wittgenstein and Marx on ordinary and philosophical language. Essays in Philosophy, 1(2), 1-41. https://doi.org/10.5840/eip2000126 

Willmer, E. & Read, R. (2000). Psychotherapy: A form of prostitution?. British Gestalt Journal, 9(2), 30-36. [A reply to this paper was published in the next issue of the journal].

Read, R. & Willmer, E. (2000). Are counselors and therapists prostitutes? A dialogue. Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 7(4), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.5840/pcw20007422 

Read, R. & Cook, J. (2001). Recent work: The philosophy of literature. Philosophical Books, 42(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0149.00221 

Read, R. (2001). On wanting to say: “All we need is a paradigm”. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 9(1), 88-105. https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview2001918 [Reprinted as: Read, R. (2009). On wanting to say, ‘all we need is a paradigm’. In S. Phineas Upham (ed.), All we need is a paradigm (pp. 117-134). Chicago & La Salle, Il: Open Court].

Read, R. (2001). On approaching schizophrenia through Wittgenstein. Philosophical Psychology, 14(4), 449-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515080120088111 [according to Google Scholar, this article has been cited over 40 times].

Read, R. (2001). What does ‘signify’ signify?: A response to Gillett. Philosophical Psychology, 14(4), 499-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515080120088139 [Published alongside Grant Gillett’s reply].

Read, R. (2002). Is ‘what is time?’ A good question to ask?. Philosophy, 77(2), 193-209. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819102000244 [Michael Dummett replied in a subsequent issue].

Read, R. & Sharrock, W. (2002). Thomas Kuhn’s misunderstood relation to Kripke-Putnam essentialism. Journal for the General Philosophy of Science, 33(1), 151-158. [Alexander Bird replied in a subsequent issue].

Read, R. & Sharrock, W. (2002). Kripke’s conjuring trick. The Journal of Thought, 37(3), 65-96.

Read, R. (2003). Against ‘time-slices’. Philosophical Investigations, 26(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9205.00184 

Read, R. (2003). Literature as philosophy of psychopathology: William Faulkner as Wittgenstein. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 10(2), 115-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2003.0099 [Louis Sass & J. M. Coetzee published replies in the same issue].

Read, R. (2003). On delusions of sense: a response to Coetzee and Sass. Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, 10(2), 135-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2003.0100 

Read, R. (2003). Kripke’s Hume: Is Kripke’s response to the ‘skeptical paradox’ Humean?. Graduate Faculty Research Journal, 24(1), 103-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/gfpj20032419 

Read, R. (2003). Kuhn: le Wittgenstein des sciences?. Archives de Philosophie, 66(3), 463-479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/aphi.664.0463 [Translated to English and published as: Read, R. (2004). Kuhn: a Wittgenstein of the sciences?. UEA Papers in Philosophy, 15].

Read, R. & Deans, R. (2003). “Nothing is shown”: A ‘resolute’ response to Mounce, Emiliani, Koethe and Vilhauer. Philosophical Investigations, 26(3), 239-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9205.00199 

Read, R. (2003). Time to stop trying to provide an account of time. Philosophy, 78(3), 397-408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819103000378 [Michael Dummett replied in the same issue].

Read, R. (2005). Throwing away ‘the bedrock’. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 105(1), 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0066-7373.2004.00103.x 

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2006). The elucidatory reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: A critique of Daniel D. Hutto’s and Marie McGinn’s reading of Tractatus 6.54. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 14(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672550500321585 [Dan Hutto replied in the same issue]. 

Read, R. (2007). Economics is philosophy: Economics is not science. International Journal of Green Economics, 1(3/4), 307-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2007.013062 

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2008). Toward a Perspicuous Presentation of “Perspicuous Presentation”. Philosophical Investigations, 31(2), 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2007.00339.x [according to Google Scholar, this article has been cited over 40 times].

Read, R. (2008). The ‘hard’ problem of consciousness is continually reproduced and made harder by all attempts to solve it. Theory, Culture and Society, 25(2), 51-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276407086791 

Read, R. (2009). Towards a green philosophy of money. Eco-Politics, 1(3), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2009)0000003004 [Reprinted as: Read, R. (2009). A Green Philosophy of money. In L. Leonard & J. Barry (eds.), Advances in Ecopolitics Vol. 4: The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice (pp. 193-212). Bingley: Emerald].

Read, R. (2010). Refusing to hear the ‘refuseniks’: A cautionary tale for our times, from Israel/Palestine. Practical Philosophy, 10(1), 103-110.

Read, R. (2010). On philosophy’s (lack of) progress: From Plato to Wittgenstein (and Rawls). Philosophy, 85(333), 341-367. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819110000203 [This paper was replied to by Edward James in a subsequent issue of Philosophy]. [republished as: Read, R. (2013). On philosophy’s (lack of) progress: From Plato to Wittgenstein (and Rawls). In L. Perissinotto & B. R. Cámara (eds.), Wittgenstein and Plato (pp. 249–280). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313447_11 ]

Read, R. (2010). Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a war book. New Literary History, 41(3), 593-612. 

Read, R. (2010). No surprise that the EU is not an “Ecological Union” – a response to Warleigh-Lack. Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research, 23(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2011.563942 

Rupert, R. (2011). There are no such things as commodities. Journal of Philosophical Economics, 4(2), 83-94. https://doi.org/10.46298/jpe.10613

Read, R. (2011). Why the ecological crisis spells the end of liberalism: Rawls’ “difference principle” is ecologically unsustainable, exploitative of persons, or empty. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 22(3), 80-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2011.593893 

Read, R. (2011). Why there cannot be any such thing as “time travel”. Philosophical Investigations, 35(2), 138-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2011.01446.x 

Read, R. (2011). Religion as sedition: On liberalism’s intolerance of real religion. Ars Disputandi, 11(1), 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/15665399.2011.10820059 

Read, R. (2011). The difference principle is not action-guiding. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14(4), 487-503, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2010.544873 

Read, R. (2011). On future people. Think, 10(29), 43-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175611000194 

Read, R. (2011). Beyond an ungreen-economics-based political philosophy: Three strikes against ‘the difference principle’. International Journal of Green Economics, 5(2), 167-183. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2011.042556 

Read, R. (2011). Care, love and our responsibility to the future. Arena, 35/36, 115-123.

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2011). De-mystifying tacit knowing and clues: A comment on Henry et al. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17(5), 944-947. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01746.x

Read, R. (2012). A strengthened ethical version of Moore’s Paradox? Lived paradoxes of self-loathing in psychosis and neurosis. Philosophical Psychology, 25(1), 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2011.569913 

Read, R. (2014). Film as philosophy as therapy: A Wittgensteinian view. Al Mukhatabat, 9, 46-56. 

Read, R. (2014). An allegory of a ‘therapeutic’ reading of a film: Of Melancholia. Sequence, 1(2), 1-15. Available at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence1/1-2-an-allegory-of-a-therapeutic-reading/ 

Read, R. & Taleb, N. N. (2014). Religion, heuristics and intergenerational risk-management. Econ Journal Watch, 11(2), 219-226. Available at: http://econjwatch.org/articles/religion-heuristics-and-intergenerational-risk-management [This article has been downloaded over 30,000 times].

Taleb, N. N.; Bar-Yam, Y.; Douady, R.; Norman, J. & Read, R. (2014). The precautionary principle: Fragility and black swans from policy actions. NYU Extreme Risk Initiative Working Paper. Available at: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/precautionary.pdf 

Taleb, N. N.; Read, R.; Douady, R.; Norman, J. & Bar-Yam, Y. (2014). The precautionary principle (with application to the genetic modification of organisms). NYU Extreme Risk Initiative Working Paper. Available at: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf [according to Google Scholar, this article has been cited over 100 times].

Read, R. & Scott Cato, M. (2014). ‘A price for everything?’: ‘The natural capital controversy’. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 5(2), 153-167. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2014.03.03 

Read, R. (2015). В защиту будущих поколений (Translation from Russian: In defense of future generations). LOGOS, 25(6), 264-274.

Read, R. (2015). An empirical refutation of Pareto-optimality?. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 26(4), 236-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2015.1104707 

Read, R. (2015). The tale Parfit tells: Analytic metaphysics of personal identity vs. Wittgensteinian film and literature. Philosophy and Literature, 39(1), 128-153. http://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2015.0011

Greaves, T. & Read, R. (2015). Where value resides: Making ecological value possible. Environmental Ethics, 37(3), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics201537331 

Read, R. (2016). Wittgenstein and the illusion of ‘progress’: On real politics and real philosophy in a world of technocracy. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 78, 265-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246116000321

Makoff, R. & Read, R. (2016). Beyond just justice – Creating space for a future‐care ethic. Philosophical Investigations, 40(3), 223-256. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12138 

Read, R. (2017). On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us. Global Discourse, 7(1), 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1300440 [Republished as: Read, R. (2018). On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us. In J. Foster (ed.), Post-Sustainability: Tragedy and Transformation (pp. 146-164). Oxon: Routledge].

Read, R. (2017). The future: compassion, complacency or contempt?. Global Discourse, 7(1), 188-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1300443 [Republished as: Read, R. (2018). The future: compassion, complacency or contempt?: reply to Foster. In J. Foster (ed.), Post-Sustainability: Tragedy and Transformation (pp. 185-188). Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1300401 ].

Read, R. & O’Riordan, T. (2017). The precautionary principle under fire. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 59(5), 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2017.1350005 [according to Google Scholar, this article has been cited over 50 times].

Read, R.; Alexander, S. & Garrett, J. (2018). Voluntary simplicity: Strongly backed by all three main normative-ethical traditions. Ethical Perspectives, 25(1), 87-116. https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.25.1.3284674 

Read, R. (2018). Den katastrofala klimatförändringen är en ‘vit svan’ (Translation from Swedish: Climate change is a white swan). Ikaros, 18(2-3), 14-16.

Read, R. (2018). This civilisation is finished: So what is to be done?. IFLAS Ocassional Paper 3. Available at: https://iflas.blogspot.com/2018/12/post-civilisation-iflas-occasional.html

Read, R. (2019). A Wittgensteinian/Austinian qualified defense of Ryle on know-how. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 39(2), 405-429. https://doi.org/10.5840/gfpj201839220 

Read, R. & Uçan, T. (2019). Introduction: ‘Post-truth’. Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Special Edition: Post-Truth, 5-22. https://doi.org/10.15845/nwr.v8i1.3508 

Read, R. (2019). What is new in our time?: The truth in ‘post-truth’: A response to Finlayson. Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Special Edition: Post-Truth, 81-96. https://doi.org/10.15845/nwr.v8i0.3507 

Read, R. & Christensen, B. A. (2019). Why ‘swampman’ would not even get as far as thinking it was Davidson: On the spatio-temporal basis of Davidson’s conjuring trick. Philosophical Investigations, 42(4), 350-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12236 

Read, R. & Greiffenhagen, C. (2019). Can sentences self-refer? Gödel and the liar. Ethnographic Studies, 16, 181-201. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3459372

Read, R. (2021). How we failed to imagine Covid-19. Crisis Response Journal. 16(1), 46-49.

Read, R. (2023). The importance of overcoming scientism, if we are to bring light to the darkness of this time. Cosmos + Taxis, 10(3&4), 19-21.

BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)

Read, R. (1990). Pain and certainty. In A. Serafini, S. Teghrarian, & E. M. Cook (eds.), Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium (pp. 160-169). Wakefield, NH: Longwood Academic.

Crary, A. & Read, R. (2000). What “there is no such thing as meaning anything by any word” could possibly mean. In A. Crary & R. Read (eds.), The New Wittgenstein (pp. 74-83). London: Routledge.

Read, R. (2000). The New Hume’s new antagonists: On the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate. In R. Read & K. A. Richman (eds.), The New Hume Debate (pp. 167-197). London: Routledge.

Read, R. (2001). Is there a legitimate way to raise doubts about the immediate future ‘from the perspective of’ a doubted immediate past?. In W. Lüttersfeld; A. Roser & R. Raatzsch (eds.), Wittgenstein Jahrbuch 2000 (pp. 89-112). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Read, R. (2001). What is ‘Chomskyism’? Or, Chomsky against Chomsky. In B. Bamford (ed.), Language, Mind and Society: An ‘Alternative’ RAVEN (pp. 33-51). Manchester. [Published alongside Chomsky’s reply].

Read, R. (2002). Culture, nature, ecosystem (or why nature can’t be naturalized). In N. Scheman & P. O’Connor (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (pp. 408-431). New York: Penn State University Press. [Reprinted as: Read, R. (2004). Culture, nature, ecosystem (or why nature can’t be naturalized). In A. Malachowski (ed.), Pragmatism: Volume Two. Sage Publications].

Read, R. (2002). Wittgenstein and Marx on vampirism and parasitism: A critique of capital and metaphysics. In G. Kitching & N. Pleasants (eds.), Wittgenstein and Marxism: Knowledge, Morality and Politics (pp. 254-281). London: Routledge.

Read, R. (2002). Reply to Wernick. In A. Bhattacharjee & R. J. Paul (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on “Interpretive” Approaches to Information Systems and Computing Research (pp. x-xii). London: Brunel University College.

Read, R. (2002). Logicism and anti-logicism are equally bankrupt and unnecessary. In R. Haller & K. Puhl (eds.), Wittgenstein and the future of philosophy, Proceedings of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (pp. 380-388).

Read, R. (2003). How to understand Kuhnian incommensurability: Some unexpected analogies from Wittgenstein. In W. Lutterfelds, A. Roser & R. Raatzsch (eds.), Wittgenstein Jahrbuch 2001/2 (pp. 151-172). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Read, R. (2004). Wittgenstein and Faulkner’s Benjy: Reflections on and of derangement. In J. Gibson & W. Huemer (eds.), The Literary Wittgenstein (pp. 267-288). New York: Routledge. [Translated into German by Martin Suhr and published as: Read, R. (2006). Wittgenstein und die literatur. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (replied to by Peter Sattler in The Valve, 2005)].

Read, R. (2005). ‘The first shall be last and the last shall be first…’: A new reading of On Certainty 501. In D. Moyal-Sharrock & W. H. Brenner (eds.), Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty (pp. 302-321). Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505346_15 

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2005). Momento: A philosophical investigation. In R. Read & J. Goodenough (eds.), Film as philosophy: Essays in cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell (pp. 72-93). London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524262_5 

Read, R. (2006). Is forgiveness ever possible at all?. In David Rudrum (ed.), Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (pp. 142-158). London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598621_11 

Lavery, M. & Read, R. (2009). Philosophy is/as the power of words. In A. Kenkmann (ed.), Teaching Philosophy (pp. 99-115). London & New York: Continuum.

Read, R. (2009). Extreme aversive emotions: A Wittgensteinian approach to dread. In Y. Gustafsson; C. Kronqvist & M. McEachrane (eds.), Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives (pp. 221-234). London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584464_14

Read, R. (2009). Wittgenstein and Zen: One practice, no dogma. In M. D’Amato, J. L. Garfield & T. J. F. Tillemans (eds.), Pointing at the moon: Buddhism, logic, analytic philosophy (pp. 13-24). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381559.003.0002 

Cook, J. & Read, R. (2009). Wittgenstein and literary language. In G. Hagberg (ed.), A companion to the philosophy of literature (pp. 465-490). Oxford: Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444315592.ch25 

Read, R. (2010). Ordinary/everyday language. In K. D. Jolley (ed.), Wittgenstein: Key Concepts (pp. 63-80). Oxon & New York: Routledge.

Read, R. & Hutchinson, P. (2010). Therapy. In K. D. Jolley (ed.), Wittgenstein: Key Concepts (pp. 149-159). Oxon & New York: Routledge.

Read, R. (2010). Wittgenstein vs. Rawls. In V. Munz; K. Puhl & J. Wang (eds.), Language and world part one: Essays on the philosophy of Wittgenstein (pp. 93-110). Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.

Read, R. & Deans, R. (2011). The possibility of a resolutely resolute reading of the Tractatus. In R. Read & I. Lavery (eds.), Beyond the Tractatus wars: The New Wittgenstein debate (pp. 149-170).  London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203816059 

Read, R. & Sharrock, W. (2012). Kuhn’s fundamental insight — Reflection on the “social sciences,” as a pedagogical and philosophical tool for thinking adequately about the natural sciences. In V. Kindi & T. Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revisited (pp. 64-89). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203103159 

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2013). Practising pragmatist-Wittgensteinianism. In A. Malachowski (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism (pp. 159-188). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139022132.011 

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2014). Reframing health care: philosophy for medicine and human flourishing. In M. Loughlin (ed.), Debates in values-based practice (pp. 69-84). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139855976.008 

Read, R. (2016). Metaphysics is metaphorics: Philosophical and ecological reflections from Wittgenstein and Lakoff on the pros and cons of linguistic creativity. In S. S. Grève & J. Mácha (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (pp. 264-297). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472540_11 

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2017). Grammar. In A. Matar (ed.), Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism (pp. 224-232). New York & London: Bloomsbury. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501302466.0022 

Read, R. (2017). How to think about the climate crisis via precautionary reasoning: A Wittgensteinian case study in overcoming scientism. In J. Beale & I. J. Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism (pp. 133-151). Oxon & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315276199 

Read, R. (2017). The Augustinian picture and its counter-picture: PI 1 and PI 43 as twins. In E. Bermon & J.-P. Narboux (eds.), Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: New Essays on §§1-88, (pp. 41-52). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63507-1_3 

Read, R. (2018). Can there be a logic of grief?: Why Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty say ‘yes’. In O. Kuusela; M. Ometiță & T. Ųcan (eds.), Wittgenstein and Phenomenology (pp.176-196). Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315626307 

Read, R. (2018). Wittgenstein as unreliable narrator/unreliable author. In A. Falcato & A. Cardiello (eds.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism (pp. 49-70). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77078-9_3 

O’Riordan, T. & Read, R. (2018). Precaution. In N. Castree; M. Hulme & J. D. Proctor (eds.), Companion to Environmental Studies (pp. 81-85). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315640051 

Read, R. & Greaves, T. (2019). A micro ‘case study’: Critiquing the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. In V. Anderson (ed.), Debating Nature’s Value (pp. 17-23). Cham: Palgrave Pivot. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99244-0_3 

Heatley, B.; Read, R. & Foster, J. (2019). Introduction: Looking for hope between disaster and catastrophe. In J. Foster (ed.), Facing up to climate reality (pp. 1-12). London: Green House Publishing & London Publishing Partnership. 

Read, R. & Steele, K. (2019). Making the best of climate disasters: On the need for a localised and localising response. In J. Foster (ed.), Facing up to climate reality (pp. 53-68). London: Green House Publishing & London Publishing Partnership.

Paul, H. & Read, R. (2019). Geoengineering as a response to the climate crisis: Right road or disastrous diversion?. In J. Foster (ed.), Facing up to climate reality (pp. 109-130). London: Green House Publishing & London Publishing Partnership.

Read, R. (2019). ‘Private language’ and the second person: Wittgenstein and Løgstrup ‘versus’ Levinas. In J. Backström; H. Nykänen; N. Toivakainen & T. Wallgren (eds.), Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind (pp. 363-390). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18492-6_13 

Read, R. & Christensen, B. A. (2019). Psychology and non-sense: Schizophrenese as example. In B. Christensen (ed.), The Second Cognitive Revolution: A Tribute to Rom Harré (pp. 161-172). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26680-6_17 

Read, R. (2020). Two conceptions of “community”: As defined by what it is not, or as defined by what it is. In A. Gleeson & C. Taylor (eds.), Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond (pp. 215-228). New York & London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351064309-13 

Read, R. (2020). The ecological economics revolution: Looking at economics from the vantage-point of Wittgenstein’s and Kuhn’s philosophies. In S. Wuppuluri & N. da Costa (eds.), Wittgensteinian (adj.) (pp. 487-502). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_26 

Read, R. (2021). Dodo, Phoenix or Butterfly?. In Arkbound Foundation (ed.), Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change (pp. 332-346). Glasgow: Arkbound Foundation.

Read, R. & Makoff, R. (2021). For a care-based intergenerational ethics. In S. M. Gardiner (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.001.0001 

Read, R. (2022). Rawlsian liberalism is founded on precautionary thinking – but the precautionary principle undermines Rawlsian liberalism. In K. E. Jensen (ed.), Preston King: History, Toleration, and Friendship (pp. 141-158). New York: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18677 

Read, R. (2023). Finite and infinite: On not making ‘them’ different enough. In C. Coseru (ed.), Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality (pp.307-324). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13995-6_16 

Read, R. (forthcoming). Wittgensteinian film-as-philosophy exemplified: Exploring the exploration of point-of-view in Cuaron’s space-exploration film Gravity. In B. Harrison & C. Fox (eds.), Philosophy of film without theory.

REPORTS, BRIEFINGS, AND PAMPHLETS

Read, R. (2012). Guardians of the future: A constitutional case for representing and protecting future people. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/guardians-of-the-future/ [Report]

Hare, J. & Read, R. (2012). Strangled by the duopoly: The collapse of UK Democracy, 1975-2012 and some proposals for its revival. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/strangled-by-the-duopoly/ [Report]

Read, R. (2014). Post-growth common sense: Political communications for the future. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/post-growth-common-sense/ [reprinted in: Blewitt, J. & Cunningham, R. (eds.) (2014). The Post-Growth Project. London: Green House & London Publishing Partnership]. [Report]

Anderson, V.; Earle, S. & Read, R. (2016). Critiquing ‘common cause’. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/critiquing-common-cause/ [Report]

Scott Cato, M.; Anderson, V.; Read, R.; Essex, J. & Parkin, S. (2016). The green case for a progressive pact: Debating the next election. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/the-green-case-for-a-progressive-pact/ [Pamphlet]

Norberg-Hodge, H. & Read, R. (2016). Post-growth localisation. Totnes & Weymouth: Local Futures & Green House. Available at: https://www.localfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/Post-growth-Localisation.pdf [Report]

Read, R. (2017). Ideas for a radical green manifesto. Weymouth: Green House. https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/ideas-for-a-radical-green-manifesto/ [Report]

Read, R. & O’Riordan (2017). Understanding, safeguarding and strengthening the precautionary principle, in the context of the Brexit negotiations. Commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth. Available at: http://limits2growth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/APPG-Briefing-Precautionary-Principle-online.pdf [Parliamentary briefing]

Anderson, V. & Read, R. (2017). Brexit and trade: Moving from globalisation to self-reliance. Commissioned by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament. Available at: http://mollymep.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brexit_Trade_FinalReport-March-2017.pdf [Report]

Read, R.; Scott Cato, M. & Blewitt, J. (2017). Sinister interest – reforming the media. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://greenhousethinktank.org/sinister-interest-reforming-the-media/ [Pamphlet]

Read, R. (2018). Why should the Precautionary Principle be preserved, post-Brexit?. Commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming. Available at: https://agroecology-appg.org/ourwork/appg-briefing-on-the-precautionary-principle-lords-and-the-eu-withdrawal-bill/ [Parliamentary Briefing]

Read, R. (2018). APPG Briefings on the Precautionary Principle (Climate Change and Animal Welfare). Commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming. Available at: https://agroecology-appg.org/ourwork/appg-briefings-on-the-precautionary-principle-climate-change-and-animal-welfare/ [Parliamentary Briefings]

Dawnay, E. & Read, R. (2020). Another Brexit is possible. Weymouth: Green House. Available at: https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/another-brexit-is-possible/ [Report]

ENCYCLOPEDIA PIECES

Read, R. (1995). Wittgenstein, Ludwig. In J. J. Chambliss (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (pp. 678-682). New York: Garland.

Read, R. & Travers, M. (1997). Reporting of Courtroom Proceedings. In R. Chadwick (ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Vol.1) (pp. 673-679). New York: Academic Press.

Deans, R. & Read, R. (2002). Ludwig Wittgenstein. In P. B. Dematteis; P. S. Fosl & L. B. McHenry (eds.), The Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Philosophers 1800-2000 (pp. 320-340). New York: Thomson Gale. 

Read, R. (2005). Peter Winch. In J. R. Shook (ed.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (pp. 2626-2628). New York: Continuum.

Read, R. & Eastoe, J. (2023). Contractarian liberalism. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (eds.), Dictionary of Ecological Economics (pp. 96-97). Cheltenham & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.C.99 

CRITICAL NOTICES, DISCUSSION NOTES, AND BOOK REVIEWS

Read, R. (1994). Patricia H. Werhane, “Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages”. Philosophy in Review, 14(2), 144-147. [Book review]

Read, R. (1994). Denis Wood (with John Feis), The Power of Maps. Radical Philosophy Review of Books, 10, 49-52. https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrevbooks1994105 [Book review]

Read, R. (1995). Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Literary Experience by James Guetti. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 35(4), 412-413. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.412 [Book review]

Read, R. (1997). David G. Stern, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 35(1), 151-153. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.1997.0013 [Book review]

Read, R. (1996). Caroline van Eck, James McAllister and Renée Van De Vall, eds., “The question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts”. Philosophy in Review, 16(3), 215-217. [Book review]

Read, R. (1998). The Nature of Science: Problems and Perspectives, Edwin Hung. Teaching Philosophy, 21(3), 301-303. https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil199821344 [Book review]

Read, R. (2001). Rosalind Hursthouse On Virtue Ethics. Philosophical Investigations, 24(3), 274-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9205.00146 [Book review]

Read, R. (2003). The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy. Mind, 112(447), 506-509. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/112.447.506 [Book review]

Sharrock, W. & Read, R. (2003). Does Thomas Kuhn have a ‘model of science’?. Social Epistemology, 17(2&3), 293-296. [Critical notice] [Steve Fuller replied in the next issue of Social Epistemology].

Read, R. (2003). Future Pasts: The Analytic tradition in twentieth-century philosophy Edited by Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh. Philosophy, 78(1), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819103250099 [Book review]

Read, R. (2003). Alexander Bird. Thomas Kuhn. International Studies in Philosophy, 35(4), 162-163. https://doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil200335429 [Book review]

Read, R. (2004). Thomas S. Kuhn, The Road since ‘Structure’. Edited by James Conant and John Haugeland. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55(1), 175-178. [Book review]

Read, R. (2004). A philosophical study of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets by Martin Warner. Philosophical Books, 45(1), 86-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0149.2004.00332.x [Book review]

Read, R. (2005). Hume’s Philosophy of the Self. By A.E. Pitson. Philosophical Quarterly, 55(219), 359-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00405.x [Book review]

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2005). Wittgenstein’s Method: Neglected Aspects by Gordon Baker. Wittgenstein’s Copernican Revolution: The Question of Linguistic Idealism by Ilham Dilman. Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies by P. M. S. Hacker. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction by David G. Stern. Philosophy, 80(3), 432-455. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819105110390 [Book reviews]

Read, R. (2005). How and how not to write on a “legendary” philosopher. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 35(3), 369-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393105279925 [Steve Fuller replied in the next issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences]. [Book reviews]

Read, R. (2005). Barsham and Bronson (eds.) ‘The lord of the rings and philosophy’. Philosophical Psychology, 18(3), 395-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515080500177366 [Book review]

Hutchinson, P. & Read, R. (2005). Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century. By Joseph Margolis. Philosophical Quarterly, 55(219), 367-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00405.x [Book review]

Read, R. (2006). A no-theory theory? Against Hutto on Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations, 29(1), 73-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2006.00275.x [Discussion]

Gregory, M. & Read, R. (2007). Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier. Mind, 116(461), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzm173 [Book review] 

Read, R. (2007). The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Denis McManus. Philosophy, 82(4), 657-661. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819107000204 [Book review]

Hutchinson, P & Read, R. (2008). John W. Cook: The Undiscovered Wittgenstein: The Twentieth Century’s Most Misunderstood Philosopher. Mind, 117(467), 681-685. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzn091 [Book review]

Read, R. (2011). The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy, by Stephen Mulhall. Mind, 120(478), 552-557. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzr023 [Book review]

Read, R. (2011). Economist-kings? A Critical Notice on Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. European Review, 19(1), 119-129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798710000426  [Critical notice]

Read, R. (2012). Iain McGilchrist, The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the Western world. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11(1), 119-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-011-9235-x [Book review]

Read, R. & Woolley, J. (2013). Wittgenstein in Exile by James C. Klagge. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 51(3), 499-500. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2013.0050 [Book review]

Read, R. & Woolley, J. (2013). Brad Wray, Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64(3), 659-664. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axs032 [Book review]

Read, R. (2013). Craig Taylor, Moralism: A Study of a Vice. Philosophical Investigations, 36(2), 179-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2013.01483.x [Book review]

Read, R. & Uçan, T. (2013). Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy. By Paul Horwich. Philosophy, 89(2), 362-367. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819113000776 [Book review]

Goodenough, J. & Read, R. (2015). Timothy Shanahan, Philosophy and Blade Runner. Film-Philosophy, 19(1), 187-190. https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2015.0064 [Book review]

Read, R. (2015). Green economics versus growth economics: The case of Thomas Piketty. Radical Philosophy, 189, 9-14. Available at: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/green-economics-versus-growth-economics [Critical notice]

Read, R. (2015). John Foster, After sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval. Radical Philosophy, 194, 67-68. Available at: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/194-reviews [Book review] 

Harkin, J. & Read, R. (2016). Michael Temelini: Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics. The Review of Politics, 78(2), 329-331. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670516000218 [Book review]

Read, R. & Mariqueo-Russell (2017). What Kind of Creatures Are We? By Noam Chomsky. Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics. By Chris Knight. Philosophy, 92(4), 660-668. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819117000183 [Book review]

Read, R. (2017). John Heaton (1925-2017) – A personal-philosophical recollection. An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, 45(3-4), 330. https://doi.org/10.1080/03060497.2017.1356106 [Obituary]

Read, R. (2018). William MacAskill, Doing Good Better; Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do. Radical Philosophy, 2.01, 106-109. Available at: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/must-do-better [Book review]

Anderson, V.; Jones, A. & Read, R. (2018). United Kingdom should learn from global body for biodiversity. Nature. 562(39). https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06892-2 [Letter]

Mariqueo-Russell, A. & Read, R. (2019). Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Radical Philosophy, 2.06, 108-110. Available at: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/fully-automated-luxury-barbarism [Book review]

Read, R. (2022). Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. Philosophical Investigations, 45(4), 528-539. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12349 [Critical notice]

TALKS AND PAPERS PRESENTED (selected)

“Geoengineering: in case of emergency, break glass”, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, United Kingdom, 25 October 2021. [debate with Andy Parker]

“Liberatory philosophy and politics in a time of civilizational crisis”, von Wright and Wittgenstein research seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland, 26 January 2021.

“Is 2020 the beginning of the end for oil in the UK, with demand collapse and the end of conspicuous consumption, or will fossil-fuelled political liberalism re-emerge?” UKCCSRC Web Series 2020, 15 May 2020. [online]

“Eco-spirituality at the moment of our last chance”, Schumacher Annual Earth Talk, 13 May 2020. [online]

“Science, Ideology and the Pandemic: A Way Out From the COVID-19 Crisis?”, Online event hosted by Byline Times, 30 April 2020. [panel with Nafeez Ahmed, Michael Baker, and Anthony Costello]

“Climate Change and Responsibility”, Philosophy Now Festival, London, United Kingdom, 18 January 2020. [debate with Robin Attfield]

 “A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment: Or, how great films can help us avoid destroying civilization”, Art After the Collapse, Dartington, United Kingdom, 22 November 2019. [keynote talk]

“What We Need to Learn from Cetacean Cultures: a Winchian Proposal”, Norms in Social Research workshop, University of Bergen, Norway, 19 September 2019. [online]

“The end of globalisation and the return of localisation: How climate breakdown terminates developmentality”, Human Development & Capability Association conference, University College London, United Kingdom, 9-11 September 2019. [Mahbub Ul Haq Keynote lecture]

Reply to Sabina Lovibond’s ““The Sickness of a Time”: Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy’”, Culture and Value after Wittgenstein conference, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 30 August – 1 September 2019.

“Without Growth or Progress: Adapting Our Culture to the New Climate Reality”,  Bristol, United Kingdom, 22 June 2019. [debate with Paul Hogget]

“What might a better economy look like?”, Norwich, United Kingdom, 20 May 2019. [debate with Richard Murphy]

“How Facing up to Climate Reality Will Change Everything”, PSA Annual International conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 15-17 April 2019.

“Climate Change: What should we do about it? How can I live with it?”, Middlebury College, VT, 8 April 2019. [debate with Bill McKibben & Kim Cobb]

“Wittgensteinian reflections upon what we can learn from other cultural animals: such as dolphins”, Wittgenstein in the 21st Century: New Directions in the Study of Wittgenstein conference, University of California, CA, 5-6 April 2019.

“Global Emergency Climate Mobilization — Is it even possible? And if so, what are the preconditions?”, University of California, CA, 4 April 2019. [debate with Tom Athanasiou]

“Philosophical reflections upon the possibly imminent end of civilization”, New College of the Humanities, London, United Kingdom, 13 March 2019.

“This civilisation is finished: So what is to be done?”, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 7 November 2018.

“Anthropodenial vs the Precautionary Principle”, Animal Advocacy in the Era of Laudato Si conference, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 23 June 2018.

“‘Private Language’?: Wittgenstein as care-ethicist”, Wittgenstein: The Place of Normativity in a Naturalistic World conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, 15-16 June 2018. [online]

“A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment: Cuaron’s Gravity”, Social Experiences of Film | Film Experiences of Sociality: New Approaches in Film-Philosophy conference, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, 14-15 June 2018. [Keynote talk]

“Understanding a cetacean society: post-Winchian thinking on what we should learn from seeming-stupidity”, The Problem of the Intelligibility of Alien Forms of Thought: Cross-Perspectives in Anthropology and Philosophy of Logic workshop, Institute for Advanced Study of Berlin, Germany, 7-8 June 2018.

Reply to Hans Sluga’s “Our current disorientation in politics and how to rethink political philosophy”, Disorientation in politics and the challenge of renewing political philosophy workshop, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 27 April 2018.

“Can we understand cetaceans? Can we change ourselves? Winchian and Wittgensteinian reflections on ‘individualism’, freedom and survival”, Peter Winch 60 years after the publication of The idea of a social science conference, University of Pecs, Hungary, 30-31 March 2018.

“This Civilization is Finished”, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 26 March 2018.

“A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment”, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 23 March 2018.

“The Precautionary Principle: A Briefing”, Palace of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, 25 October 2017. [Talk to Members of Parliament]

“Understanding a dolphins’ society”, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 20 October 2017.

“Wittgenstein as Augustinian”, University of Helsinki, Finland, 24 September 2017.

“Autonomy is relationality: Wittgenstein on ethics, in relation to Logstrup, Nykanen and Backstrom”, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 19 September 2017.

“Philosophy’s role in thinking about the coming ecological crisis”, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 18 September 2017. 

“This Civilization is Finished”, What Now?: Political Thought at a Moment of Crisis conference, University of California, CA, 7-8 September 2017.

“On be(com)ing us: Questioning the individual, and learning from other mammals”, 2017 conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 3-5 July 2017.

“Can we understand cetaceans? Can we change ourselves?: Winchian and Wittgensteinian reflections on ‘individualism’, freedom and survival”, Truth in politics and metaphysics: celebrating the work of Peter Winch conference, King’s College London, United Kingdom, 30 June – 2 July 2017.

“Seeding a civilisation to succeed this one”, Climate & Apocalypse International conference, Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Bedford, United Kingdom, 29-30 June 2017. Available at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkshpb4-gAU

Reply to Mariam Thalos’s “Precaution-first frameworks for decision analysis”, Risk, Uncertainty & Catastrophe Scenarios conference, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, 9-10 May 2017.

“Economics and Science: a philosophical critique, with special reference to ecological economics”, Cambridge Realist Workshop, Clare College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 13 February 2017.

Reply to Mark Sagoff’s “In defence of ecomodernism”, ESRC Seminar: Climate Justice and Economic Growth, University of Manchester, 30-31 January 2017.

“A short history of philosophy with a radical green edge”, Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 23 November 2016. [jointly with Catherine Rowett]

“The Precautionary Principle reinterpreted”, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, 26 October 2016.

“Is it self-evident that inquiry ought to be ‘evidence-based’?”, closed symposium on Wittgenstein and politics, University of Helsinki, Finland, 9-11 March 2016.

“The Precautionary Principle and existential risk”, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 19 February 2016.

“Does science have all the answers?”, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, 15 February 2016. [debate with Jennifer Hornsby, James Ladyman & Eleanor Knox]

“The relevance of the Precautionary Principle to governance”, National Audit Office seminar, London, United Kingdom,14 September 2015.

“The tyranny of evidence: An argument for precaution”, Where the light gets in festival, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom, 23 May 2015.

“What can’t be learnt from past financial crises”, Closed seminar at the Bank of England, London, United Kingdom, 2 March 2015.

“How to admire science and despise scientism”, Wittgenstein and Physics conference, St Cross College, University of Oxford, 22 November 2014. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_sv6iePtbc

“Why time goes faster as one gets older: a philosophical argument”, A science of the Soul? conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, 20 October 2014.

“On the concept of ‘placebo’”, University of Helsinki, Finland, 18 October 2014. [jointly with Phil Hutchinson]

“Guardians for future generations: A proposal for earth systems governance”, IARU Sustainability Science Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 October 2014. [online]

“Wittgenstein and the concept of progress”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture, London, United Kingdom, 24 October 2014. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPcQ6sIOTY

“Guardians for future generations: a modest Platonic-Habermasian proposal”, annual Association of Legal and Social Philosophy conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 1-2 July 2014.

“Guardians for future generations as Earth-Systems-Governance”, Global Earth Systems Governance conference, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 2-4 July 2014.

“The philosophy of human-triggered global over-heat”, Conway Hall, London, United Kingdom, 12 April 2014. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddpFD0ssV-4

“Green Philosophy?”, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, United Kingdom, 5 June 2013. [debate with Roger Scruton] Available at: https://soundcloud.com/lsepodcasts/green-philosophy-audio

“Ordinary language”, ‘Ordinary and Quotidian’ series, University of York, United Kingdom, 31 May 2013.

“Kuhn and evidence-based medicine”, University of Hull, United Kingdom, 30 May 2013.

“Guardians for future generations: a way to care adequately for the future”, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, 7 May 2013.

“How the Precautionary principle undermines liberalism, and why this is a good thing”, Tyndall Centre for Climate Science, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 31 October 2012.

“An ethical reading of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations”, conference in memoriam for Gordon Baker on the 10th anniversary of his death, Oxford, United Kingdom, 17 September 2012. [jointly with Phil Hutchinson]

“The Prestige as therapeutic philosophy”, Film-Philosophy, London, United Kingdom, 14 September 2012.

“Philosophy, politics and communication”, Hay Literary Festival, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom, 2 June 2012. [debate with Mike Hulme] Available at: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-4593-mike-hulme-and-rupert-read.aspx 

“A modest Platonic proposal?: Strong guardians for future generations”, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 23 May 2012.

“Reframing knowledge”, Society for the Philosophy of Education annual conference, New College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 30 March 2012. [plenary address]

“A modest Platonic proposal?: Strong guardians for future generations”, RIP Lecture, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, 2 November 2011.

“Wittgenstein’s ‘therapeutic’ conception of philosophy as a challenge to standard understandings of what knowledge must be”, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom, 12 October 2011.

“A policy proposal to take future generations seriously: Strong guardians”, Resolve seminar, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, 14 July 2011.

“On ecological films”, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), London, United Kingdom, 24 June 2011.

“Sustainability: the very idea”, Lancaster ‘Climate philosophy’ conference, United Kingdom, 26-28 March 2011. [plenary address]

“Avatar: Transformative therapeutic film”, FTV seminar series, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 7 March 2011.

“The language that mediates environmental change”, MECCSA ‘Mediating environmental change’ conference, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, 4 March 2011. [plenary address]

“Guardians for the future: A modest Platonic proposal?”, Philosophy and Public Policy: Making an impact closed seminar series, King’s College London, United Kingdom, 23 February 2011.

“A better future: love or justice?”, 4^th Changing the climate: Utopias conference, Monash, Australia, 30 August – 1 September 2010. [online]

“‘Unspeak’ and ‘Reframing’; Or, Politics without Propaganda?”, ‘Where’s your argument?’ conference on Informal Logic, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, 7 April 2010. 

“Swastikas and cyborgs: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a war book”, Manchester Metropolitan University (Crewe campus), United Kingdom, 1 December 2009.

“‘When love is gone, there’s always justice’: Which value do we most need, to stop manmade climate change?”, Camp for Climate Action conference, London, United Kingdom, 29 November 2009.

“Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a war book”, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 28 September 2009.

“Wittgenstein vs. Rawls”, University of Helsinki, Finland, 24 September 2009.

“Wittgenstein vs. Rawls”, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society conference, August 2009.

“Gramsci and The Lord of the Rings”, Forum for European Philosophy, Queensbury Place, London, United Kingdom, 13 February 2009.

“Is economics a Kuhnian discipline?”, conference on Kuhn, University of Athens, Greece, September 2008.

“The case of John Rawls vs. the refuseniks”, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom, 7 February 2007.

“The philosophy of climate change”, inaugural Florida ‘Philosophy and climate change’ conference, 14-16 September 2006. [online]

“Jackson’s Sauron as Descartes’s malign demon: Film as better philosophy”, Philosophy and Film conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 8-9 June 2006.

“A philosophical critique of ecological economics”, Solar Cities Congress, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 3-6 April 2006.

“Liberalism is inherently inegalitarian and ecologically unsustainable: Against Rawls and Habermas”, ‘Provocations’ series, Forum for European Philosophy, Institut Francais, London, United Kingdom, 26 January 2006.

“Zen Buddhism as Wittgensteinian”, International Society for Buddhist Philosophy conference, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 12-13 November 2005. 

“The philosophy of climate change — the philosophy of ‘Contraction and Convergence’”, Second Annual Green Economics Institute Conference, Reading, United Kingdom, 29 October 2005.

“Economics is philosophy”, Green Economics Institute Conference, Reading, United Kingdom, 29 May 2005.

“Poetry, belief and non-belief”, Warwick LitPhil Workshop, United Kingdom, 25 February 2005. [jointly with Jon Cook]

“Throwing away ‘the bedrock’”, Aristotelian Society, London, United Kingdom, 18 November 2004.

“Wittgensteinian philosophy as Zen Buddhism”, Stapleton Society, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 18 October 2004.

“Hume’s writing from the vantage point of Wittgenstein’s”, 4th Annual British Hume Studies Conference, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 8-9 September 2004.

“The responsibility of British intellectuals”, Literature and Humanities 2: What is Literature?, University of Kent, United Kingdom, 4 June 2004.

“Kuhn: A Wittgenstein of the Sciences?” MIND / Aristotelian Society Joint Sessions, Belfast, United Kingdom, 18-21 July 2003.

“Kuhn: A Wittgenstein of the Sciences?”, Departmental Seminar, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 January 2003.

Reply to Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy, Accounting for literary language: An international interdisciplinary symposium, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 1-2 September 2002.

“Kuhn’s legacy”, IIEMCA Annual Workshop, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, 26-27 July 2002.

“On On Certainty 501”, 9th annual Mind and Society Symposium, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 6-7 June 2002.

Reply to Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey, international symposium on Wittgenstein and film, University of Kent, United Kingdom, 1 June 2002.

“How not to misunderstand Thomas Kuhn”, Williams College, MA, 4 April 2002.

“Wittgenstein’s ‘woodsellers’ reconsidered”, New School for Social Research, NY, 2 April 2002. 

“Kuhn: a Wittgenstein of the Sciences?”, Apres la Structure: Kuhn et la philosophie des sciences aujourd’hui conference, Institut d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France, 16 March 2002.

“Philosophical problems are not problems of the intellect, but problems of mood”, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 7 February 2002.

“The philosophy of literature of Salman Rushdie”, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 11 October 2001.

“Thomas Kuhn and ‘human science’”, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 10 October 2001.

“Slicing Time”, Orders of Ordinary Action conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, 10 July 2001.

“Thomas Kuhn on history, politics, sociology, theology, art, and … oh yeah … science”, Colgate University, NY, 23 March 2001.

“‘Kuhnian’ incommensurability: in science, social science, and ethics”, Philosophy Department Colloquium, Binghamton University, NY, 22 March 2001.

“Giving an elucidatory reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”, University of Notre Dame, IN, 2 March 2001.

“Marx’s critique of conceptual confusion, Wittgenstein’s critique of capital”, Northwestern University, IL, 12 February 2001.

“Giving an elucidatory reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”, Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, IL, 2 February 2001.

“The New Hume versus the New Wittgenstein: Metaphysics versus Therapy”, Nature et Naturalisme: Héritages contemporains de Hume conference, Université d’Amiens, France, 11 December 2000.

“Is ‘The New Wittgenstein’ really new?”, Le nouvel Wittgenstein conference, Sorbonne (Université Paris I), France, 9 December 2000. [Keynote talk]

“Wittgenstein’s influence on Hume, Nietzsche, Marx etc.”, Forum for European Philosophy, Institut Francais, London, United Kingdom, 21 November 2000.

“Wittgenstein’s influence on Nietzsche: A Wittgensteinian reading of his predecessors”, University of Wales, United Kingdom, 15 November 2000.

“Beyond Relativism, Pluralism, Realism, etc.: reassessing Peter Winch”, British Sociological Association Theory Group conference on Peter Winch, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 8-10 September 2000.

“On wanting to say, ‘All we need is a paradigm, and then we can have normal science’”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 6-7 July 2000.

“‘Scepticism’ in the service of philosophical clarity: Re-reading Hume in the light of a new understanding of Wittgenstein”, International Skepticism and Interpretation conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6-11 June 2000.

“The paradox of forgiveness”, Forgiveness: Traditions and Implications conference, University of Utah, UT, 12-15 April 2000.

“All attempts to solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness only make the problem harder”, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 23 March 2000.

“Marx and Wittgenstein on parasitism”, International Wittgenstein and Marx Colloquium, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 March 1999.

“Are technical terms of any use in the social sciences and philosophy?”, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 4 December 1998.

“Two Wittgensteinian accounts of schizophrenia”, Bolton Institute of Higher Education, Bolton, United Kingdom, 16 October 1998.

“Sass versus Diamond on Wittgenstein and ‘schizophrenic language’”, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on ‘Philosophy and Psychopathology’, Cornell University, NY, 10 July 1998.

“Sass versus Diamond on Wittgenstein and schizophrenic language”, University of Illinois, IL, 11 April 1997.

“A Wittgensteinian critique of Freud — and Fodor”, Houston Cognitive Science Initiative, University of Houston, TX, 5 April 1997.

“Louis Sass versus the Conant/Diamond reading of Wittgenstein”, Pacific American Philosophical Association, Berkeley, CA, 29 March 1997.

“Is it ever possible to forgive anyone?”, Stapleton Society, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 21 October 1996.

Reply to Kevin Meeker’s “Was Hume an Externalist?”, Hume Society / British Society for the History of Philosophy conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 16 July 1996.

“Cognitive Sciences, David Hume and ‘Postmodernism’”, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 13 July 1996.

“The geography of (our) society”, American Philosophical Association (S.P.G. Meeting), New York, NY, 29 December 1995.

“A taxonomy of scepticisms”, New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association’s Annual Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, 19 November 1994.

“Nature, Culture, Environment”, annual PIC Conference, Binghamton University, NY, 16 April. 1993.

“Three pragmatists?: Nelson Goodman, Stephen Stich, Cornel West”, University of Houston, TX, 5 June 1992.

“From Relativism and Ethnocentrism to Perspectivism”, Morality and Rationality Seminar, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy, 29 May 1991.

“Quine and Wittgenstein on Reference, Behaviourism and Language-acquisition”, Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference, Route 1, NJ, 5-6 May 1990.

“Is Derrida’s Nietzsche’s ‘Third Woman’ an Essentialist or a Feminist?”, 12th annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Illinois, IL, 12-14 April 1990.

Reply to Wing-Chun Wong’s “Do I know I’m in pain?”, New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association’s Witgenstein Centennial Conference, Fairleigh-Dickinson University, NJ, 29 April 1989.

RADIO APPEARANCES AS PHILOSOPHER (selected)

Appeared on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ to discuss:

• The 50th anniversary of Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (12 July 2012) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkp42]
• Is psychology a science? (13 March 2013) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r5ps2]
• Arne Naess [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047wbc5]
• The Word for World Is Forest, Ursula Le Guin (19 June 2018) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6yb37]
• Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World (17 December 2019) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6Dw2znL6g]

Appeared on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Waves’ to discuss:

• The 60th anniversary of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (9 January 2013) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmh5z]
• Are we living through a new Enlightenment? (4 March 2013) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0z4b]

Appeared on BBC World Service’s ‘The Forum’ to discuss:

• Certainty (13 October 2014) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027xnqh]

Appeared on BBC Radio’s ‘Arts and Ideas’ to discuss:

• John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (21 January 2021) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p094b7cq]
• Green Thinking: how we see nature (15 October 2021) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ynhz0]

FURTHER IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES (selected)

• Published articles in: ABC Religion & Ethics, Brave New Europe, Business Spotlight Magazine, Byline Times, Compass Online, Eastern Daily Press, Ecological Citizen, Emerge, Euro News, Green World, Independent, Le Monde Diplomatique, Left Foot Forward, Liberal Conspiracy, LSE Politics and Policy, Medium, New Internationalist, OECD Insights, Open Democracy, Open Magazine, Permaculture Magazine, Philosophy Now, Red Pepper, Res Publica, Resilience, Resurgence Magazine, Reuters Breaking Views, Talking Philosophy, The Conversation, The Dark Mountain Project, The Ecologist, The Guardian, The Idler, The London Economic, The Morning Star, The New Statesman, The Philosophers’ Magazine, and Zeit. Many of these articles are archived on www.rupertread.net/writings . 
• Numerous national and regional television appearances, including on BBC Question Time and Politics Live. Many of these appearances are archived on www.rupertread.net/audio-video .
• Numerous national and regional radio appearances, including on the BBC Today Program and various LBC shows.
• Numerous public talks, panels, and debates at Hay-on-Wye literary festival, Where the Light Gets In, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Latitude, Green Gathering, Oxford Literary Festival, and Philosophy Now Festival.
• Co-writer of three short films about climate breakdown: “The One Video to Watch on Climate, If You Have Just 3 Minutes” (17 July 2017) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcokyx6Tbk], “Precautionary Principle Animation” (6 December 2016) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMyxXs3t7Fs], and “Out of the Ashes” (7 November 2022) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi166hJv6Qk].
• Submitted evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on genetically modified crops in 2015; and to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee in 2011.
• Briefed members of parliament and the House of Lords about the Precautionary Principle. This included a one-to-one meeting with then secretary of state for environment, Michael Gove MP, in December 2017.
• Chair of Green House think tank (2012-2018). https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/ .
• Former Green Party of England and Wales councilor (2004-2011), MP-candidate (2009 by-election, 2015), MEP-candidate (2009, 2014, 2019), and spokesperson.
• Co-writer of the Green Party of England and Wales policies on the Precautionary Principle and Rights of Nature laws. 
• Speaker at numerous corporate and industry events, including at HSBC, Bank of England, National Audit Office, and Brewdog.
• Created and hosted weekend course on spiritual adaptation to the climate crisis at Glenthorne Quaker Centre. 
• Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK in their mass protests in April and October 2019. This included debates on national television and radio with MPs, ministers, and members of the shadow cabinet.
• Attended several events at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020, where I was interviewed about climate breakdown by broadcasters from several different countries. 
• Expert Reviewer for the Government and Expert Review of the Second Order Draft (SOD) of the contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC and of the first drafts of the Summary for Policymakers and the Technical Summary, 2021.
• Co-founder and co-director of The Moderate Flank Incubator (2022-Present). https://moderateflank.org/

Areas of specialisation

• Ecological and Political Philosophy (including critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, and work on the Precautionary Principle)
• Philosophy of Language (Special focus on Wittgenstein)
• Philosophy of the Sciences (including philosophy of the environmental sciences, of the ‘social sciences’, and philosophy of mental health/illness)
• Philosophy and Film (especially film and literature as philosophy)

Education

• Advanced Certificate of Higher Education Practice, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich 1998-1999.
• Ph.D in Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 1988-95. Practices without Foundations?: Sceptical readings of Wittgenstein and Goodman. Rutgers University, NJ. Supervisor: Barry Loewer. Successful thesis defence: Ap. 27 ’95; Degree awarded Oct. 2 ’95.
• First Class B.A. Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford University, Balliol College, 1984-87.

Honours / awards

• Visiting Fellowship for the Spring and Summer terms of 1991 at the European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy.
• Admission with S.C.T. Tuition Grant to Summer School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth Coll., NH, 1992.
• Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers Univ., 1988-91, 1992-93.
• U.K. Director, Society for Philosophy and Geography, 1995-8.
• Associate Editor, Philosophy and Geography, 1995-2005.
• Co-organiser of the annual Mind and Society Seminars at Manchester and Cambridge, since 1997 (funded by the British Academy since 2000 (and also by the Mind Association in 2003)).
• Invited speaker and participant, N.E.H. Summer Seminar on ‘Philosophy and Psychopathology’, Cornell U., Ithaca NY, 1998.
• Guest Editor, Ethnographic Studies, Issue 3 (1998).
• A.H.R.B. award for funding for travel to ‘Forgiveness: Traditions and Implications’ Conference, Tanner Humanities Center, Utah, Easter 2000.
• Appointed to Editorial Board of Philosophical Psychology, 2000-.
• Accepted into membership of Institute of Learning and Teaching, 2000.
• Visting Scholar, University of Chicago Philosophy Dept., Winter Quarter 2001.
• Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Leave Award Aug.-Dec. 2001.
• Conference Organiser, ‘The legacy of Thomas Kuhn: new work’, UEA, August 30 2002 (Conference supported by Analysis Trust, MIND, and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science).
• British Academy award funding closed conference on ‘Accounting for literary language: an international interdisciplinary symposium on Wittgenstein and literature’, UEA, September 1/2 2002.
• Promotion to Senior Lecturer, UEA, Spring 2003.
• AHRB research funding as co-investigator on the project, ‘The role of the concept of ‘social practice’ in philosophy and sociology of maths’. (Co-awardees: Wes Sharrock, Christian Greiffenhagen), 2004-5.
• Appointed to Cambridge Wittgenstein Archive Advisory Board, 2004-.
• Appointed to Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Economics 2005-2009.
• Appointed Associate Editor of Philosophical Investigations 2005-.
• Invited to be PhD External Examiner in Uppsala, Finland, 2006.
• Promotion to Reader, UEA, Summer 2007.
• Guest Editor, special issue of Eco-Politics, 2009.
• Invited to be (and appointed) an affiliate Faculty member of the British Centre for Literary Translation, UEA, 2010-.
• Invited to join (and appointed to) the Steering Group for a research project on ‘Institutional mechanisms for the future’ at the World Wildlife Fund, 2010-2012.
• Invited to join (and appointed to) the Board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2011-.
• Conference Organiser, Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy, International Society for Environmental Ethics, 12-14 June, 2013, UEA, UK (Conference supported by MIND, Aristotelian Society and The Analysis Trust; first time Conference was ever in the UK).
• Appointed an Earth Systems Governance Fellow, 2014.
• Included as a Fellow in the successful major Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity ESRC bid, 2015.
• Principal Investigator, AHRC Research Network award on ‘Valuing nature’, 2016-2018. Follow-on funding was awarded for the bid ‘Taking the debate on nature’s value to the valuers’, 2019 (AHRC reference: AH/S00517X/1).
• Shortlisted for International Society for Environmental Ethics’ Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy.
• Plus numerous further ‘small’ grants for Conferences convened at UEA, at the Cambridge Wittgenstein Archive, and at Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan Universities. Won from MIND, the Aristotelian Society, the British Society of the Philosophy of Science, the Association for Social and Legal Philosophy, etc…

Manuscript Referee

Manuscript referee for:

• For Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy
• British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
• Capitalism Nature Socialism
• Contemporary Political Theory
• CRISPP
• Dialectica
• Ethical
• Theory and Practice
• History of the Human Sciences
• HOPOS
• Hume Studies
• Inquiry
• International Journal of Philosophical Studies
• International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Journal of Philosophical Research
• Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
• Philosophical Investigations
• Philosophical Psychology
• Philosophical Quarterly
• Philosophy East and West
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Philosophy Psychology Psychiatry
• Political Theory
• Rethinking History
• Social Studies of Science
• Sustainable Development
• Synthese
• Theoria
• Theory Culture and Society

Book proposals and manuscripts for:

• Routledge
• OUP
• Polity
• Palgrave MacMillan
• Ashgate
• Brill
• Lexington Books
• Blackwell’s

Teaching

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy, School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, 1997 onwards.

Units taught:

• Philosophy and Other Subjects
• Political Philosophy
• Philosophy of religion
• Wittgenstein and twentieth century
• Analytical Philosophy
• Philosophy of the Sciences
• Philosophy of religion
• Philosophy and Literature
• Philosophy of Religion
• Advanced Philosophical Problems (dissertation unit)
• Introduction to Philosophy (part)
• Philosophy of Politics and Economics
• Advanced Philosophy of Social Science (MA course)
• Michel Foucault
• Philosophical issues in Feminism
• Aesthetics (part)
• Film and Literature as Philosophy
• Mental Health
• Nietzsche and twentieth century Continental Philosophy
• Critical theories of the Modern Self (MA course, part)
• Advanced Literature and Philosophy (MA Course, part)
• Theories of society and politics (MA course, part)
• Topics in Political Philosophy (MA course, part)
• Certainty and Uncertainty in Environmental Science and Policy (MA course).

Curriculum development

substantial; full details available on request. Including: co-creation of new ‘Environmental Sciences and Humanities’ Master degree, in 2011.

Previous teaching experience

• Lecturer in Philosophy, Philosophy Dept., Manchester University, 1996-7.
• Lecturer in Sociology and Philosophy, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1995-6.
• Instructor, English and Philosophy Depts., Rutgers University, Sept. 1993 – June 1995.
• Instructor, Philosophy Dept., Rutgers, May 1990 – July 1991.

PhD supervision and examination

• Currently first supervisor for three Ph.D students. Topics: “The Madyamaka and the New Wittgenstein: parallel lines”, “Cavell and Wittgenstein on rules”, “The aesthetical politics of climate”.
• Ten Ph.D students graduated. Topics: “Attention”; “A Wittgensteinian critique of International Relations Theory”; “Self- consciousness and self-reference”; “Not in Mauthner’s sense: An anarchic reading of the Tractatus“; “The philosophy of the films of Lars von Trier”; “Rawls and epistemology”; “Confronting climate crisis: A framework for understanding the criteria for addressing dangerous climate change”, “Wittgenstein and Sartre on totality”; “A philosophy of the commons”; “A philosophy of imaginaries”.
• Studentships: Three of my Ph.D students have received AHRB/C studentships; nine have received UEA studentships or bursaries.
• Dissertation panels: Several students in Literature and Film, as well as in Philosophy.
• External PhD examination: At Edinburgh, Essex, Oxford and Kent. Also invited to externally examine in Abo, Finland, and Helsinki, Finland.

Recent administrative experience

• Headship of the School of Philosophy for 3.5 years. Under my leadership, the Philosophy Department at UEA expanded substantially, for the first time ever since the founding of UEA, including through the winning of a University-funded Professorship.
• Directorship of the Philosophy and Literature joint degree Programme.
• Directorship of the Philosophy degree programme.
• Co- Directorship of the MA in Social Philosophy.
• Creator and Course Director of the interdisciplinary MA/MSc in Environmental Science and Humanities.
• Membership of the Faculty of Humanities Executive.
• Originated and ran Philosophy Faculty Forum and UEA Wittgenstein Workshop.
• Served on the UEA Assembly Standing Committee.

Publications

Books

Kuhn: philosopher of scientific revolution

• Monograph, co-authored with Wes Sharrock; Oxford: Polity, 2002; translation into Korean (by Kim Hae Jin) published, 2005.
• Widely reviewed, including a major review in Philosophical Books.

The New Wittgenstein

• Edited book, jointly edited with Alice Crary; London: Routledge, 2000; reprinted several times.
• Widely reviewed, including in the TLS and Common Knowledge; full-length review articles, critical notices and replies in Philosophical Investigations, Mind, European Journal of Philosophy; and a further 8 reviews published elsewhere; extremely widely cited.

The New Hume Debate

• Edited book, jointly edited with Ken Richman; London: Routledge, 2000; enlarged paperback second edition appeared in 2007.
• Reviewed in Journal of the History of Philosophy, TLS, Eighteenth Century Studies and (at length) in Hume Studies, among other places.

Film as Philosophy: Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell

• Edited book, jointly edited with Jerry Goodenough; London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
• Major reviews, all positive, in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Times Higher Education, Scope, Film-Philosophy, The Philosophers’ Magazine.
• The book as a whole (and its ruling idea of ‘film as philosophy’, which was my conception), wins praise on the back cover for representing “a wholly new view of the relationship between image and thought” and as calling “for course development”.
• Widely and positively discussed in other books, including by Trahair, and by Mullarkey. It has spawned imitators, such as most notably Smith’s and Wartenberg’s Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy (Routledge: 2007).
• The book’s central idea is increasingly attracting interest in journals: notably, in “Film as Philosophy: In Defense of a Bold Thesis”, by Aaron Smuths inThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2009), Volume: 67 (4), Pages: 409-420. See also Paisley Livingston’s OUP book, Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: film as philosophy.
• Translated into and published in Persian (Farsi), 2012.
• Sequelar article reflecting on the developments in film as philosophy over the last 10 years.

Philosophy for Life

• Edited by Matt Lavery, London; Continuum, 2007.
• Reviewed very favourably in Metapsychology and Reconstruction.
• This is a popular work; it has sold c.6000 copies.

Applying Wittgenstein

• Edited by Laura Cook, London: Continuum, 2007.
• Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, and very positively in Philosophical Investigations.

There is No Such Thing as Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch

• Co-authored with Phil Hutchinson & Wes Sharrock; London: Ashgate, 2008.
• Reviewed positively in Philosophical Investigations, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Contemporary Sociology and very positively in Analysis. Major review article by Stephen Turner in European Journal of Sociology.
• Reviewed additionally in Archives of European Sociology, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Metapsychology Online, Czech Sociological Review, Anthropology in Action and Human Studies.

Beyond the Tractatus wars: The ‘New Wittgenstein’ debate

• Co-edited with Matt Lavery, London: Routledge, 2011.
• This book has been reviewed in Philosophical Investigations, Philosophy, the Heythrop Journal and British Wittgenstein Society.

Wittgenstein among the Sciences

• Edited by Simon Summers, Ashgate, 2012.
• Positively reviewed in Philosophical Investigations, by Duncan Richter (2013): “Read’s rich work presents a great many facts and insights that do indeed incline the reader to see much of the social sciences as infected with scientism”. Also by Gavin Kitching in Review Essay.

A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes

• Lexington Books, 2012.
• Critical Notice published recently by the British Wittgenstein Society. Book-cover reviews:
  • Rupert Read seems to be a spoilsport, until you realize how serious and important his objectives are in this book. He explains away several brain-teasing paradoxes, and he uses those explanations to illustrate and illuminate themes in philosophy, in general, and Wittgenstein, in particular. However, he also investigates subjects such as racism and self-hatred that greatly affect our lives outside of the classroom or study. (Don Levi, University of Oregon)
  • A fascinating study, by a major Wittgensteinian, of Wittgenstein’s seemingly paradoxical view of paradox: on one hand, mere confusion in a philosopher’s use of words; on the other, the deepest expression of our human nature. In these lively and powerfully illuminating essays, Rupert Read takes us to the very heart of Wittgenstein’s enterprise, offering one way of understanding the sense in which this crucial figure of modern thought both was and was not an anti-philosopher. (Louis A. Sass, author of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind)

A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

• Routledge, 2018. Available to purchase here.
• Book-cover review: Rupert Read is one of the most significant environmental philosophers alive. He is changing the way people think about and talk about the catastrophe of anthropogenic climate change. Any thinking person who cares about non-human animals or about our ecological crisis – and that means any thinking person – will want to read this book. (Gary Francione, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA).

This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire – and what lies beyond

• Co-authored with Samuel Alexander. Simplicity Institute, 2019.
• Book-cover review: “A brave and necessary conversation, which digs deep into ideas which will make many people – including many greens – uncomfortable. This book should help everyone to question their own assumptions.” (Paul Kingsnorth, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.)
• Book-cover review: “Bring your fear, your despair and your hope to this book – it will nurture them all with sharp and nuanced insight.” (Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics.)
• Chapter one has been translated into Chinese.

Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside

• Co-authored [RR as 1^st author] with Samuel Alexander. Simplicity Institute, 2020.
• The book contains endorsement quotes from David Graeber, Gail Bradbrook, Kate Raworth, Sir Jonathan Porritt, Mike Berners-Lee, Iain McGilchrist, David Loy, Ken Ward and Carne Ross.

Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy

• Routledge, 2021.
• Favorably reviewed for the premier Wittgenstein journal Philosophical Investigations by Britt Harrison.
• The book contains endorsement quotes from Edmund Dain, David Stern, Aseem Shirvastava, Stephen Mulhall, Thomas Wallgren, Iain McGilchrist, Hans Sluga and Katherine Morris.

Parents for a Future – How loving our children can prevent climate collapse

• UEA Publishing Project, 2021.
• Translations into German and Dutch have been commissioned.
• Favorably reviewed for the activist website Green World by former Green Party deputy leader, Shahrar Ali.

Papers (selected)

^* indicates peer-reviewed journal

• “Pain and Certainty” in Cook et al (eds.), Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium, Wakefield: Longwood, (1990): 160-169.
• “The Unstatability of Kripkian Scepticisms” in Philosophical Papers, XXIV(1), (1995): 67-75.^*
• “The real philosophical discovery” in Philosophical Investigations, 18(4), (1995): 362-370.^*
• “Acting from Rules” (co-authored with James Guetti), International Studies in Philosophy, XXVIII(2), (1996): 43-62.^*
• “Goodman’s Hume” in Diálogos, 67, (1996): 95-121.^*
• “In what sense is ‘Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s scepticism’ a scepticism? Epistemic vs. metaphysical aspects” in De Philosophia, 12, (1996): 117-132.
• “Is forgiveness possible? The cases of Thoreau and Rushdie (on)(writing) the unforgivable” in Reason Papers, 21, (1996): 15-35.
• “On the nature and centrality of the concept of ‘practice’ among Quakers” in Quaker Religious Thought, 86, (1996): 33-39.
• “On (virtuous? vicious?) circles of concepts in Goodman ‐ and Quine”, Diálogos, 68, (1997): 23-29.^*
• “The career of ‘internal relations’ in Wittgenstein’s thought” in Wittgenstein Studies, 2, (1997).^*
• “The (new) riddle of the new riddle: Goodmanic method applied to Goodman” in The Journal of Thought, 33(2), (1998): 49-74.^*
• “There is no good reason to believe that Philosophical Counselling will be effective in curing schizophrenia” in Contemporary Philosophy, XX(5&6), (1998): 59-63. [Paul Gibb replied in a subsequent issue].
• “Meaningful Consequences” (co-authored with James Guetti), The Philosophical Forum, XXX(4), (1999): 289-314.^*
• “Erotic love considered as philosophy of science” in Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science, XXV(1&2), (2000): 35-57.
• “What ‘There is no such thing as meaning anything by any word’ could possibly mean” in Alice Crary & Rupert Read (eds.), The New Wittgenstein, London: Routledge, (2000): 74-83.
• “Wittgenstein and Marx on ordinary and philosophical language” in Essays in Philosophy, 1(2), (2000): 1-41.^*
• “The New Hume’s new antagonists: On the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate” in Rupert Read & Kenneth A. Richman (ed.), The New Hume Debate, London: Routledge, (2000): 167-197.
• “Psychotherapy: a form of prostitution?” (co-authored with Emma Willmer), in British Gestalt Journal, 9(2), (2000): 30-36. [A reply to this paper was published in the next issue of the Journal].
• “Is there a legitimate way to raise doubts about the immediate future ‘from the perspective of’ a doubted immediate past?” in Wilhelm Lüttersfeld, Andreas Roser & Richard Raatzsch (eds.), Wittgenstein Jahrbuch (2000), Frankfurt: Peter Lang, (2001): 89-112.
• “Recent work: the Philosophy of Literature” (co-authored with Jon Cook), in Philosophical Books, XLIII(2), (2001): 118-131.
• “On wanting to say: ‘All we need is a paradigm'” in The Harvard Review of Philosophy, XI, (2001): 88-105. [Reprinted in a volume of the best of the Harvard Review, named after my essay: “All we need is a paradigm”, New York: Open Court, (2009)].
• “How I learned to love (and hate) Noam Chomsky” in Philosophical Writings, 15 & 16, (2000/1): 23-48.^*
• “What does ‘signify’ signify?” in Philosophical Psychology, 14(4), (2001): 499-514. [published along with Grant Gillett’s reply].^*
• “On approaching schizophrenia through Wittgenstein” in Philosophical Psychology, 14(4), (2001): 449-475.^*
• “What is Chomskyism? Or: Chomsky against Chomsky” in The Alternative Raven, ‘Language, Mind and Society’ issue, (2001): 33-51. [published along with Chomsky’s reply].
• “Are Philosophical Counsellors and Therapists prostitutes?: A dialogue” (co-authored with Emma Willmer), in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 7(4), (2001): 33-42.^*
• “Is ‘What is time?’ a good question to ask?” in Philosophy, 77(2), (2002): 193-209. [Michael Dummett replied to this paper at length in Philosophy in the following year].
• “Kripke’s conjuring trick” (co-authored with Wes Sharrock), in The Journal of Thought, 37(3), (2002): 65-96.^*
• “Nature, Culture, Ecosystem: or ‘The priority of Environmental Ethics to epistemology and metaphysics'” in N. Scheman (ed.), Feminist Readings of Wittgenstein, New York: Penn. State Press, (2002): 408-431. [Reprinted (with new Post-Scripts) in Alan Malachowski’s edited volume on Pragmatism for Sage, 2005].
• “Thomas Kuhn’s misunderstood relation to ‘Kripke/Putnam essentialism'” (co-authored with Wes Sharrock), in Journal for the General Philosophy of Science, 33(1), (2002): 151-158. [Full-length reply by Alexander Bird appeared two issues later].^*
• “Wittgenstein and Marx on vampirism and parasitism” in Kitching and Pleasants (eds.), Wittgenstein and Marxism, London: Routledge, (2002): 254-281.
• “Reply to Wernick” in Bhattacharjee and Paul (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on “Interpretive” Approaches to Information Systems and Computing Research, London: Brunel, (2002): x-xii.
• “Logicism and Anti-Logicism are equally bankrupt and unnecessary” in Haller and Puhl (eds.), Wittgenstein and the future of philosophy, Proceedings of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (2001/2): 380-8.
• “Against ‘time-slices'” in Philosophical Investigations, 26(1), (2003): 24-43.^*
• “How to understand Kuhnian incommensurability: some unexpected analogies from Wittgenstein” in Wittgenstein Jahrbuch 2001/2, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, (2003): 151-172.
• “Nothing is shown” (co-authored with Rob Deans) in Philosophical Investigations, 26(3), (2003): 239-268.^*
• “Kripke’s Hume” in Graduate Faculty Research Journal, 24(1), (2003).^*
• “Time to stop trying to provide an account of time” in Philosophy, 78(3), (2003): 397-408. [Replied to by Michael Dummett in the same issue.]
• “Kuhn: le Wittgenstein des sciences?” in Archives de Philosophie, 66(3), (‘Kuhn, Aprés la Structure, (guest edited by Sandra Laugier, Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne nouvelle, (2003): 463-480. English translation: “Kuhn: a Wittgenstein of the sciences?”, in UEA Papers in Philosophy, 15 (2004), [replied to by Angus Ross]
• “Literature as philosophy of psychopathology” in Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry, 10(2), (2003): 115-124. [Replied to by Louis Sass and Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee immediately followed my paper] ^*
• “On delusions of sense: a response to Coetzee and Sass” in Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry, 10(2), (2003): 135-142.^*
• “Wittgenstein and Faulkner’s Benjy: reflections on and of derangement” in Gibson and Huemer (eds.), The Literary Wittgenstein, (2004), London: Routledge. [Translated into German by Martin Suhr, as Wittgenstein und die Literatur, (2006), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.] [Replied to by Peter Sattler in The Valve, August 2005]
• “Throwing away ‘the bedrock'” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 105(1), (2004): 81-98.
• “The first shall be last…: the importance of On Certainty 501” in Daniele Moyal-Sharrock et al (eds.), Essays On Certainty, (2005), London: Palgrave.
• “Memento: A philosophical investigation” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson), in Read and Goodenough (eds.), Film as Philosophy: Essays in Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell, (2005), London: Palgrave MacMillan.
• “The elucidatory reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson) in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 14(1), (2006): 1-29. [Dan Hutto replied in the same issue].^*
• “Is forgiveness ever possible?” in David Rudrum (ed.), Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates, (2006), London: Palgrave.
• “Economics is philosophy: Economics is not science” in International Journal of Green Economics, 2, (2007): 307-325.^*
• “‘Perspicuous Presentation’: a perspicuous presentation” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson) in Philosophical Investigations, 31(2), (2008): 141-160.^*
• “The ‘hard’ problem of consciousness is continually reproduced and made harder by all attempts to solve it” in Theory, Culture and Society, 25(2), (2008): 51-86.^*
• “Towards a Green philosophy of money” in Eco-Politics, 3, (2009): 3-26. Reprinted as “A Green Philosophy of money” in Leonard and Barry (eds.), The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice: Advances in Ecopolitics, (2009), Dublin: Emerald.
• “Philosophy is/as the power of words” (co-authored with Matt Lavery) in A. Kenkmann (ed.), Teaching Philosophy, (2009), London: Continuum.
• “Extreme aversive emotions in Gustafsson, Kronqvist and McEachrane (eds.), Emotions and Understanding, (2009), London: Palgrave MacMillan.
• “Wittgenstein and Zen: one practice, no dogma” in Garfield & Tillemans (eds.), Pointing at the Moon, (2009), Oxford: O.U.P.
• “Refusing to hear the ‘Refuseniks’: a cautionary tale for our times, from Israel/Palestine” in Practical Philosophy, 10(1), (2010): 56-64.
• “Wittgenstein and literary language” (co-authored with Jon Cook) in Garry Hagberg (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, (2010), Oxford: Blackwell.
• “On philosophy’s (lack of) progress: From Plato to Wittgenstein (and Rawls)” in Philosophy, 85(3), (2010): 341-367. [This paper was replied to in Philosophy].^*
• “Therapy” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson) in Kelley Dean Jolley (ed.), Wittgenstein: Key Concepts, (2010), London: Acumen.
• “Ordinary Language and the Everyday” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson) in Kelley Dean Jolley (ed.), Wittgenstein: Key Concepts, (2010), London: Acumen.
• “Rawls vs. Wittgenstein” in Munz, Puhl and Wang (eds.), Language and World: Essays on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, (2010), Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
• “Avatar: A call to save the future” in Radical Anthropology, 4, (2010): 35-41.
• “Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a war book” in New Literary History, 41(3), (2010): 593-612.^*
• “No surprise that the EU is not an ‘Ecological Union'” in Innovations – The European Journal of Social Science Research, 23(4), (2010): 313-317.
• “There are no such things as commodities” in Journal of Philosophical Economics, 4(2), (2011): 83-94.^*
• “A resolutely resolute reading of the Tractatus” in Read and Lavery (eds.), Beyond the ‘Tractatus’ Wars, (2011), London: Routledge.
• “A strengthened ethical version of Moore’s Paradox?” in Philosophical Psychology, 25(2), (2011): 133-141.^*
• “Why the ecological crisis spells the end of liberalism: The ‘difference principle’ is ecologically unsustainable, exploitative of persons, or empty” in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 22(3), (2011): 80-94.^*
• “There is no such thing as ‘time-travel'” in Philosophical Investigations, 35(2), (2011): 138-153.^*
• “Religion as sedition: On liberalism’s intolerance of real religion” in Ars Disputandi, 11, (2011).^*
• “The difference principle is not action-guiding” in CRISPP, 14(4), (2011): 487-503.^*
• “On future people” in THINK, 29(10), (2011): 43-7.
• “Beyond an ungreen-economics-based political philosophy: Three strikes against the difference principle” in International Journal of Green Economics, (2011), 5(2): 167–183.^*
• “Care, Love and Our Responsibility to the Future”, Arena, 35/36, (2011): 115-123.
• “Demystifying tacit knowing and clues: Commentary on Henry et al” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson) in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17, (2011): 944-947.
• “Kuhn’s fundamental insight – Reflection on the ‘social sciences’, as a pedagogical and philosophical tool for thinking adequately about the natural sciences” (co-authored with Wes Sharrock), in Kindi and Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revisited, (2012), London: Routledge.
• “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson), in The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism, (2013), Cambridge: C.U.P.
• “Popular films as philosophy as ‘therapy'” in Al Mukhatabat, (2014).
• “An allegory of a therapeutic reading: Of Melancholia” in Sequence, 1(2), (2014).^*
• “Religion, heuristics and intergenerational risk-management” (co-authored with Nassim Taleb), Econ Journal Watch, 11(2), (2014): 219-226.^*
• “The precautionary principle” (co-authored with Nassim Taleb et al), NYU Extreme Risk Initiative Working Paper, (2014).
• “Reframing health-care: philosophy for medicine and human flourishing” (co-authored with Phil Hutchinson), in Michael Loughlin (ed.), Debates in Values-based practice, (2014), C. U. P.
• “A price for everything?: ‘The natural capital controversy'” (co-authored with Molly Scott Cato), in Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 5(2), (2015): 153-167.^*
• “An empirical refutation of the Pareto Principle?” in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 26(4), (2015): 236-244.^*
• “The tale Parfit tells” in Literature and Philosophy, 39(1), (2015): 265-284.^*
• “Metaphysics and metaphorics” in Sebastian Greve (ed.), Wittgenstein and the creativity of language, (2015), Routledge.
• “Where values reside” (co-authored with Tom Greaves) in Environmental Ethics, 37(3), (2015): 321-340.
• “Wittgenstein and the Illusion of ‘Progress’: On Real Politics and Real Philosophy in a World of Technocracy” in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 78, (2016): 265-284.
• “Beyond just justice” (Co-authored with Ruth Makoff) in Philosophical Investigations, 40(3), (2017).
• “Grammar”, with Phil Hutchinson, in Anat Matar (ed), Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism, (2017), Bloomsbury.
• “On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us” in Global Discourse, 7(1), (2017): 149-167.
• “The future: compassion, complacency or contempt?”, in Global Discourse, 7(1), (2017): 188-191. [This is a reply to John Foster’s “On letting go” in Global Discourse, 7(1),(2017): 171-187].^*
• “How to think about the climate crisis via precautionary reasoning: A Wittgensteinian case study in overcoming scientism” , in Beale and Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism, (2017), Oxon and New York: Routledge.
• “The Precautionary Principle Under Fire” (Co-authored with Tim O’Riordan), in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 59(5), (2017): 4-15.
• “The Augustinian Picture and Its Counter-Picture: PI 1 and PI 43 as Twins” in Emmanuel Bermon and Jean-Philippe Narboux (eds.), Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: New Essays on §§1-88, (2017), Cham: Springer.
• “Can There be a Logic of Grief?”, in Kuusela, Ometita, and Ųcan (eds.), Wittgenstein and Phenomenology, (2018), Oxon: Routledge.
• “Voluntary Simplicity: strongly backed by all three main normative-ethical traditions”, (co-authored with Samuel Alexander and Jacob Garrett) in Ethical Perspectives, 25(1), (2018): 87-116.^*
• “Wittgenstein as Unreliable Narrator/Unreliable Author”, in Falcato and Cardiello (eds.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, (2018), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• “Den Katastrofala klimatförändringen är en ‘vit svan’” in Ikaros. 18(2-3), (2018): 14-16. (Swedish translation of my article ‘Climate Change is a White Swan’).
• “A Micro ‘Case Study’: Critiquing the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” (co-authored with Tom Greaves), in Victor Anderson (ed.), Debating Nature’s Value, (2018), Palgrave Pivot, Cham.
• “This civilisation is finished: So what is to be done?”. IFLAS Ocassional Paper 3, (2018).
• “A Wittgensteinian/Austinian Qualified Defence of Ryle on Know-How” in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 39(2), (2019): 1-25.*
• “Introduction: Looking for Hope between Disaster and Catastrophe” (co-authored with Brian Heatley and John Foster), in Facing Up To Climate Reality. Green House Publishing & London Publishing Partnership, (2019): 1-12.
• “Making the Best of Climate Disasters: On the Need for a Localised and Localising Response” (co-authored with Kristen Steele), in Facing Up To Climate Reality. Green House Publishing & London Publishing Partnership, (2019): 53-68.
• “Geoengineering as a Response to the Climate Crisis: Right Road or Disastrous Diversion?” (co-authored with Helena Paul), in Facing Up To Climate Reality. Green House Publishing & London Publishing Partnership, (2019): 109-130.
• “Introduction: ‘Post-Truth’” (co-authored with Timur Uçan). Nordic Wittgenstein Review. Special Edition: Post-Truth. (2019): 5-22.
• “What is New in Our Time?: The Truth in ‘Post-Truth’: A Response to Finlayson”. Nordic Wittgenstein Review. Special Edition: Post-Truth. (2019): 81-96.^*
• “Why ‘Swampman’ would not even get as far as thinking it was Davidson: On the spatio-temporal basis of Davidson’s conjuring trick”. (co-authored with Bo Allesøe Christensen).Philosophical Investigations. 42(4), (2019): 350-366.^*
• “‘Private language’ and the second person: Wittgenstein and Logstrup ‘Versus’ Levinas” in Backström et al. (eds.). Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind. (2019) Palgrave. [reprinted in The Second Cognitive Revolution (2019)].
• “Psychology and Non-sense: Schizophrenese as Example” (co-authored with Bo Allesøe Christensen) in Bo Allesøe Christensen (ed.). The Second Cognitive Revolution: A Tribute to Rom Harré. (2019). Springer.
• “Can Sentences Self-Refer? Gödel and the Liar” (co-authored with Christian Greiffenhagen) in Paul V. Smith and Michael Lynch (eds.). Festschrift for Wes Sharrock, Ethnographic Studies. (2019). 16: 181-201.
• “Two conceptions of “community”: as defined by what it is not, or as defined by what it is”, in Andrew Gleeson and Craig Taylor (eds.). Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond. (2019). Routledge: New York & Oxon.
• “The Ecological Economics Revolution: Looking at Economics from the Vantage-Point of Wittgenstein’s and Kuhn’s Philosophies”, in Shyam Wuppuluri and Newton da Costa (eds.). Wittgensteinian (adj.). (2020). Springer.
• “This civilization is finished: Time to build an ecological civilization”. The Ecological Citizen. 3(2), (2020): 157-162. Available at: https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v03n2-10.pdf.
• “Rawlsian liberalism is founded on precautionary thinking – but the precautionary principle undermines Rawlsian liberalism”, in Kipton Jensen (ed.). Preston King: History, Toleration, and Friendship. (2021). Peter Lang: New York, NY
• “How we failed to imagine Covd-19” Crisis Response Journal. 16(1), (2021): 46-49.

In Progress

• “Wittgenstein, Gravity and the affirmative evaluation of film-style”

Reports

• “Guardians of the Future: A Constitutional Case for representing and protecting Future People”, Green House, 2012.
• “Green House’s ‘post-growth’ project: an introduction”“, Green House, 2012.
• “Strangled by the Duopoly: The collapse of UK Democracy, 1975-2012 and some proposals for its revival”, (co-authored with John Hare) Green House, 2012.
• “Post-growth Common Sense: Political Communications for the Future, Green House, 2014; reprinted in The Post-Growth Project, eds. Cunningham and Blewitt, Green House Books, 2014.
• “Critiquing ‘Common Cause'”, (co-authored with Victor Anderson and Sam Earle), Green House, 2016.
• “The Green Case For A Progressive Pact”, (contributions from Molly Scott Cato MEP, Victor Anderson, Rupert Read, Jonathan Essex, and Sara Parkin) Green House, 2016.
• “Brexit And Trade: Moving From Globalisation To Self-Reliance”, (co-authored with Victor Anderson), Funded by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, 2017.
• “[Pamphlet] Sinister Interest – Reforming the Media”, (contributions from Rupert Read, Molly Scott-Cato, and John Blewitt) Green House, 2017.
• “[Briefing] APPG Briefing on the Precautionary Principle: Lords and the EU (Withdrawal) Bill”, (written with and for the) APPG on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming, 2018.
• “[Briefings] APPG Briefings on the Precautionary Principle (Climate Change and Animal Welfare)”, (written with and for the) APPG on Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming, 2018.

Encyclopedia pieces

• “Wittgenstein, Ludwig”, in J.Chambliss (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1995), 678-682.
• “Reporting of Courtroom Proceedings” (jointly written with Max Travers), in Ruth Chadwick (ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Vol.1) (New York: Academic Press, 2001), 673-679.
• “Ludwig Wittgenstein”, (jointly written with Robert Deans) in P. B. DeMatteis (ed.), The Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Philosophers 1800-2000 (New York: Bruccoli, Clarck, Layman; 2002), 320-340.
• “Wittgenstein”, in V.E. Taylor and C.E. Winquist (eds.) Encyclopedia of Postmodernism (London: Routledge, 2003).
• “Peter Winch”, in The Dictionary of Modern American philosophers, ed. Ernie Lepore (New York: Continuum, 2005).

Critical notices, review essays, discussion notes and book reviews

• “Book Review: P.Werhane’s Skepticism, Rules and Private Languages“, in Canadian Philos. Reviews (XIV:2, 1994).
• “Book Review: D.Wood’s The Power of Maps“, in Radical Philosophy Review of Books 10 (1994).
• “Book Review: J.Guetti’s Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Literary Experience“, in The British Journal of Aesthetics (35:4, p412, (Oct. 1995)).
• “Book Review: D.Stern’s Wittgenstein: Mind and Language“, in Journal of the History of Philosophy (35:1 (1997), p151).
• “Book Review: McAllister, van Eck and van de Vall (eds.), The question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts“, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews (XVI:3, 1996).
• “Book Review: Edwin Hung’s The nature of science: Problems and Perspectives“, in Teaching Philosophy (1998).
• “Book Review: R. Hursthouse’s, On Virtue Ethics, in Philosophical Investigations (24:3, 2001, 274-282).
• “Book Review: A. Cunningham’s The heart of what matters: The role for literature in moral philosophy, in Mind 112 (no.447, 2003, 506-509)
• “Does Thomas Kuhn have a ‘model of science’?”, a jt.-written (with Wes Sharrock) Critical Notice of S. Fuller’s Thomas Kuhn: a philosophical history for our times, in Social Epistemology 17: 2 &3 (2003) [Fuller replied to our paper in the next issue of Social Epistemology]
• “Book Review: J. Floyd and S. Shieh (eds.), Future Pasts“, in Philosophy (78:1, 2003, 123-145).
• “Book Review: A. Bird, Thomas Kuhn”, in International Studies in Philosophy, 2004
• “Book Review: T. Kuhn, The Road Since Structure” in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55:1 (2004), 175-178.
• “Book Review: Martin Warner, A philosophical study of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets” in Philosophical Books (45:1, 2004, 86-89).
• “Book review: A.E. Pitson, Hume’s philosophy of the self, in Philosophical Quarterly, 55:219, 359-361, 2005.
• “Whose Wittgenstein?” (jointly with Phil Hutchinson) Review essay of G. Baker, Wittgenstein’s method, D. Stern, Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, I. Dilman, Wittgenstein’s Copernican Revolution and P. Hacker Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, in Philosophy 80 (July 2005), pp.432-455.
• “How and how not to write on a ‘legendary’ philosopher”, a Review essay of Steve Fuller, Kuhn vs. Popper, and Thomas Nickles (ed.), Thomas Kuhn, in Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Sept.2005), 35:3.[Fuller replied at length in the next issue, in his “The importance of being [Rupert] Read”.]
• “Book review: Barsham and Bronson (eds.) ‘The lord of the rings’ and philosophy”, in Philosophical Psychology 18:3, (2005), 395-397.
• “Book review: J. Margolis, Reinventing Pragmatism and The unravelling of scientism”, in Philosophical Quarterly (jt. with Phil Hutchinson) 55:219, (2005) 367-369.
• “‘Discussion’: A no-theory theory? Dan Hutto’s, Wittgenstein: Neither theory nor therapy“, in Philosophical Investigations 29:1, 73-81, (2006).
• “Book review: J. Whiting et al, Essays in honour of Annette Baier”, Mind 116 (461): 173-176, Jan 2007 (jt. With Mark Gregory).
• “Book review: D.McManus, The enchantment of words”, Philosophy 82 (4): 657-661 (2007).
• “Obituary: James Guetti”, Philosophy Now 60:18-18 (2007).
• “Book review: John Cook, The Undiscovered Wittgenstein”, in Mind 117 (467), 681-685 (2008), (jt. with Phil Hutchinson).
• “Book Review: S. Mulhall’s The Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee and the difficulty of reality in literature and philosophy”, Mind (2011) 120 (478): 552-557.
• “Economist-kings?”, a Critical Notice of Bryan Caplan’s The myth of the rational voter, in the European Review 19:1 (2011), 119-129.
• “Book Review: I. McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary”, in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11 (1):119-124 (2012).
• “Book Review: Paul Horwich’s Wittgenstein’s metaphilosophy” – co-authored with Timur Uçan, Philosophy, 1-6 (2013).
• “Book Review: James Klagge’s Wittgenstein in exile” – co-authored with Jessica Woolley, Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (3):499-500 (2013).
• “Book Review: Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s evolutionary social epistemology” – co-authored with Jessica Woolley, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (3):659-664 (2013).
• “Book Review: Craig Taylor, Moralism: A study of a vice”, Philosophical Investigations, 36 (2):179-184 (2013).
• Commentary piece (the equivalent of a ‘Critical Notice’), Radical Philosophy 189 (Jan/Feb 2015): “Green economics versus growth economics: The case of Thomas Piketty”.
• “Book Review: John Foster’s After sustainability”, in Radical Philosophy 194 (Nov./Dec. 2015).
• “Book Review:Michael Temelini’s Wittgenstein and the study of politics”, co-authored with Juliette Harkin in Notre Dame Review of Politics. 78(2). (2016).
• “Book review: What Kind of Creatures are we? and Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics” – co-authored with Atus Mariqueo-Russell in Philosophy. (2017).
• “Book review:Peter Singer’s The Most Good You Can Do and William MacAskill’s Doing good better: Must Do Better”, in Radical Philosophy. (2017).
• “Obituary:John Heaton – A personal-philosophical recollection”, in Self & Society. (2017).
• “Letter:United Kingdom should learn from global body for biodiversity” – co-authored with Victor Anderson and Aled Jones in Nature. 562, 39. (2018).
• “Book Review: Aaron Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism”, (co-authored with Atus Mariqueo-Russell) in Radical Philosophy. (2019). 2.06.

Public Talks and Papers Presented (selected)

• Keynote talk: “A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment: Or, how great films can help us avoid destroying civilization”, Art After the Collapse, Dartington Hall, 22 Nov. 2019.
• “Research AND action in the age of climate- and ecological- breakdown”, at the biannual conference of the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England, Brighton, 16 Nov. 2019.
• “The limits to growth and the limits of science”, Norwich Science Café, The Maddermarket Theatre, 16 Oct. 2019.
• “Invitation to Future Trajectories” at “Art & Architecture Summit”, Architectural Association, London. 4 Oct. 2019.
• Mahbub Ul Haq Keynote lecture: “The end of globalisation and the return of localisation: How climate breakdown terminates developmentality”, at “Human Development & Capability Association” Conference, University College London, 9 Sep. – 11 Sep. 2019.
• Reply to Sabina Lovibond’s ““The Sickness of a Time”: Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy’”, at “Culture and Value after Wittgenstein” conference, University of Oxford, 30 Aug. – 1 Sep. 2019.
• “Without Growth or Progress: Adapting Our Culture to the New Climate Reality”, debate with Paul Hogget, Friends Meeting House, Bristol, 22 Jun. 2019.
• “What might a better economy look like?”, debate with Richard Murphy, Friends Meeting House, Norwich, 20 May. 2019.
• “How Facing up to Climate Reality Will Change Everything”, at “PSA Annual International Conference 2019”, Nottingham Conference Center, Nottingham, 15 Apr. – 17 Apr. 2019.
• “Climate Change: What should we do about it? How can I live with it?”, debate with Bill McKibben and Kim Cobb, Middlebury College, Vermont, US, 8 Apr. 2019.
• “Wittgensteinian reflections upon what we can learn from other cultural animals: such as dolphins”, at “Wittgenstein in the 21st Century: New Directions in the Study of Wittgenstein” Conference, Berkeley University of California, US, 5 Apr. – 6 Apr. 2019.
• “Global Emergency Climate Mobilization – Is it even possible? And if so, what are the preconditions?”, debate with Tom Athanasiou, Berkeley University of California, US, 4 Apr. 2019.
• “Philosophical reflections upon the possible imminent end of civilization”, New College of the Humanities, London, 13 Mar. 2019.
• “This civilisastion is finished: So what is to be done?”, Churchill College Environmental Lecture Series, University of Cambridge, 7 Nov. 2018.
• “A Future for the Planet”, at Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk. 12 Jul. – 15 Jul. 2018.
• “Anthropodenial vs the Precautionary Principle”, at “Animal Advocacy in the Era of Laudato Si” Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 23 Jun. 2018.
• “Private Language”?: Wittgenstein as care-ethicist”, at “Wittgenstein: The Place of Normativity in a Naturalistic World” Conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, 15 Jun. – 16 Jun. 2018. (by video conference).
• Keynote talk: “A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment: Cuaron’s Gravity”, at “Social Experiences of Film | Film Experiences of Sociality: New Approaches in Film-Philosophy” Conference, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, 14 Jun. – 15 Jun. 2018.
• “Understanding a cetacean society: post-Winchian thinking on what we should learn from seeming-stupidity”, at “The Problem of the Intelligibility of Alien Forms of Thought: Cross-Perspectives in Anthropology and Philosophy of Logic” workshop, Institute for Advanced Study of Berlin, 7 Jun. – 8 Jun. 2018.
• Reply to Hans Sluga’s “Our current disorientation in politics and how to rethink political philosophy”, at “Disorientation in politics and the challenge of renewing political philosophy” workshop, University of East Anglia, 27 Apr. 2018.
• “Can we understand cetaceans? Can we change ourselves? Winchian and Wittgensteinian reflections on ‘individualism’, freedom and survival”, at “Peter Winch, 60 years after the publication of The idea of a social science” conference, University of Pecs, Hungary, 30 Mar. – 31 Mar. 2018.
• “This Civilization is Finished”, at Department of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 26 Mar. 2018.
• “A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment”, at Philosophy Dept., Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 23 Mar. 2018.
• “The Precautionary Principle Briefing”, at The Palace of Westminster, 25 Oct. 2017. [This was a talk delivered to Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords about the philosophy and legal history of the Precautionary Principle]. The text of the briefing is “available here”.
• “Understanding a dolphins’ society.”, at University of East Anglia, UEA Philosophy Society, 20 Oct. 2017.
• “Wittgenstein as Augustinian.”, at Helsinki University, 24 Sep. 2017.
• “Autonomy is relationality: Wittgenstein on ethics, in relation to Logstrup, Nykanen and Backstrom.”, at the research seminar, Åbo Akademi University, 19 Sep. 2017.
• “Philosophy’s role in thinking about the coming ecological crisis.”, at Åbo Akademi University, Philosophical Workshop, 18 Sep. 2017.
• “This Civilization is Finished.”, at University of California, Berkeley, “What Now?: Political Thought at a Moment of Crisis” conference, 7 Sep. – 8 Sep. 2017.
• “On be(com)ing us: Questioning the individual, and learning from other mammals.”, at University of East Anglia, “The 2017 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe”, 3 Jul. – 5 Jul. 2017.
• “Can we understand cetaceans? Can we change ourselves?: Winchian and Wittgensteinian reflections on ‘individualism’, freedom and survival.”, at Kings College London, “Truth in politics and metaphysics: celebrating the work of Peter Winch” conference, 30 Jun. – 2 Jul. 2017.
• “Seeding a civilisation to succeed this one.”, at Panacea Museum Gardens, Bedford. Hosted by the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, “Climate & Apocalypse International Conference”. 29 Jun. – 30 Jun. 2017.
• Reply to Mariam Thalos’s “Precaution-first frameworks for decision analysis”, at Pitt Building, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, “Risk, Uncertainty & Catastrophe Scenarios conference”, 9 May. – 10 May. 2017.
• “Economics and Science: a philosophical critique, with special reference to ecological economics.”, at Clare College, University of Cambridge, “Cambridge Realist Workshop”, 13 Feb. 2017.
• Reply to Mark Sagoff’s “In defence of ecomodernism”, at University of Manchester, “ESRC Seminar: Climate Justice and Economic Growth”, 30-31 Jan. 2017.
• “A short history of philosophy with a radical green edge” jt. With Prof Catherine Rowett, at Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities, University of East Anglia. 23 Nov. 2016.
• “The Precautionary Principle reinterpreted”, at Lancaster University, 26 Oct. 2016.
• “Is it self-evident that inquiry ought to be ‘evidence-based’?”, at the University of Helsinki closed symposium on Wittgenstein and politics, 9-11 Mar. 2016.
• “The Precautionary Principle and existential risk”, at the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, 19 Feb. 2016.
• “Does science have all the answers?”, debate at the Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London, 15 Feb. 2016.
• “The relevance of the Precautionary Principle to governance”, at the National Audit Office seminar, London, 14 Sep. 2015.
• “The tyranny of evidence: An argument for precaution”, at the ‘Where the light gets in’ festival, Hay-on-Wye, 23 May. 2015.
• “How to admire science and despise scientism”, at the ‘Wittgenstein and physics’ conference, St. Cross, University of Oxford, 22 Nov. 2014.
• “Why time goes faster as one gets older: a philosophical argument”, at the ‘A science of the Soul?’ Conference, Helsinki, 20 Oct. 2014.
• “On the concept of ‘placebo'”, jt. with Phil Hutchinson, 18 Oct. 2014, University of Helsinki.
• “Guardians for future generations: A proposal for earth systems governance”, at the IARU Sustainability Science Congress, Copenhagen (by Skype), 7 Oct. 2014.
• “What can’t be learnt from past financial crises”, Closed seminar at the Bank of England, the City of London, 2 Mar. 2015: audience of 120 Bank staff.
• “Wittgenstein and the concept of progress”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture, London, 24 Oct. 2014.
• “Guardians for future generations: a modest Platonic-Habermasian proposal”, at the annual Association of Legal and Social Philosophy Conference, Leeds, 1-2 Jul. 2014.
• “Guardians for future generations as Earth-Systems-Governance”, at the global Earth Systems Governance Conference, University of East Anglia, 2-4 Jul. 2014.
• “The philosophy of human-triggered global over-heat”, at Conway Hall, London, 12 Apr. 2014.
• “Green Philosophy?”: Debate with Roger Scruton, Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, 5 Jun. 2013.
• “Ordinary language”, public lecture at the York ‘Ordinary and Quotidian’ series, 31 May. 2013.
• “Kuhn and evidence-based medicine” at Hull University Philosophy Department, 30 May. 2013.
• “Guardians for future generations: a way to care adequately for the future”, in the Philosophy seminar at Wolverhampton Uni, 7 May. 2013.
• “How the Precautionary principle undermines liberalism, and why this is a good thing”, at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Science, University of East Anglia, 31 Oct. 2012.
• “An ethical reading of Wittgenstein’s PI”, at the closed conference in memoriam for Gordon Baker on the 10th anniversary of his death, SJC, Oxford, 17 Sep. 2012; jt. presentation with Phil Hutchinson.
• “The Prestige as therapeutic philosophy”, Film-Philosophy in London, 14 Sep. 2012, part of the panel “The Therapeutic Philosophy of Christopher Nolan”.
• “Philosophy, politics and communication”: debate with Mike Hulme (chaired by Geoffrey Lean), the Hay Literary Festival, 2 Jun. 2012.
• “A modest Platonic proposal?: Strong guardians for future generations”, Sheffield University, 23 May 2012.
• “Reframing knowledge”, plenary address at the ‘Society for the Philosophy of Education’ Annual Conference, New College, Oxford, 30 Mar. 2012.
• “A modest Platonic proposal?: Strong guardians for future generations”, RIP Lecture, Philosophy Department, Bradford University, 2 Nov. 2011.
• “Wittgenstein’s ‘therapeutic’ conception of philosophy as a challenge to standard understandings of what knowledge must be”, Institute of Education, University of London, 12 Oct. 2011.
• “A policy proposal to take future generations seriously: Strong guardians”, Resolve seminar, U. Surrey (Guildford), 14 Jul. 2011.
• “On ecological films”, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), London, 24 Jun. 2011.
• “Sustainability: the very idea”, a plenary address at the Lancaster ‘Climate philosophy’ conference, 26-8 Mar. 2011.
• “Avatar: Transformative therapeutic film”, at the FTV seminar series, University of East Anglia, 7 Mar. 2011.
• “The language that mediates environmental change”, plenary address at the MECCSA ‘Mediating environmental change’ conference, Bournemouth University, 4 Mar. 2011.
• “Guardians for the future: A modest Platonic proposal?”, at the ‘Philosophy and Public Policy: Making an impact’ closed seminar series, King’s College London, 23 Feb. 2011.
• “A better future: love or justice?”, at the 4th ‘Changing the climate: Utopias’ Conference in Monash, Australia, by audiolink, 30 Aug. – 1 Sep. 2010.
• “‘Unspeak’ and ‘Reframing’; Or, Politics without Propaganda?”, at the ‘Where’s your argument?’ conference on Informal Logic, Manchester Metropolitan University, 7 Apr. 2010.
• “Swastikas and cyborgs: Wittgenstein’s Philosphical Investigations as a war book”, at the Philosophy Department, Manchester Metropolitan University (Crewe campus), 1 Dec. 2009.
• “‘When love is gone, there’s always justice’: Which value do we most need, to stop manmade climate change?”, at the Camp for Climate Action Conference, London, 29 Nov. 2009.
• “Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a war book”, at the Philosophy department, Abo Academy, Finland, 28 Sep. 2009.
• “Wittgenstein vs. Rawls”, as an invited paper at the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society Conference (August ’09), and at the Philosophy Department of the University of Helsinki (24 Sep. 2009).
• “Gramsci and The Lord of the Rings”, at the Forum for European Philosophy, Queensbury Place, London, 13 Feb. 2009.
• “Is economics a Kuhnian discipline?”, as an invited speaker at the University of Athens closed conference on Kuhn, September 2008.
• “The case of John Rawls vs. the refuseniks”, at SOAS seminar series, London, 7 Feb. 2007.
• “The philosophy of climate change”, via audio- and videolink, at the inaugural Florida ‘Philosophy and climate change’ conference, 14-16 Sep. 2006.
• “Jackson’s Sauron as Descartes’s malign demon: Film as better philosophy”, at the Manchester University Philosophy and Film Conference, 8-9 Jun. 2006.
• “A philosophical critique of ecological economics”, at the Solar Cities Congress, Oxford University, 3-6 Apr. 2006.
• “Liberalism is inherently inegalitarian and ecologically unsustainable: Against Rawls and Habermas”, as part of the ‘Provocations’ series, Forum for European Philosophy, Institut Francais, London, 26 Jan. 2006.
• “Zen Buddhism as Wittgensteinian”, at the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy conference, Cambridge University, 12-13 Nov. 2005.
• “The philosophy of climate change – the philosophy of ‘Contraction and Convergence'”, at the Second Annual Green Economics Institute Conference, Reading, 29 Oct. 2005.
• “Economics is philosophy”, at the Green Economics Institute Conference, Reading, 29 May 2005.
• “Poetry, belief and non-belief”, jt. with Jon Cook, at the Warwick LitPhil Workshop, 25 Feb. 2005.
• “Throwing away ‘the bedrock'”, at the Aristotelian Society, London, 18 Nov. 2004.
• “Wittgensteinian philosophy as Zen Buddhism”, Stapleton Society, Liverpool U., 18 Oct. 2004.
• “Hume’s writing from the vantage point of Wittgenstein’s”, 4th Annual British Hume Studies Conference, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford, 8-9 Sep. 2004.
• “The responsibility of British intellectuals”, at ‘Literature and Humanities 2: What is Literature?’, Univ. of Kent, 4 Jun. 2004.
• “Kuhn: A Wittgenstein of the Sciences?” at the MIND / Aristotelian Society Joint Sessions, Belfast, 18-21 Jul. 2003.
• “Kuhn: A Wittgenstein of the Sciences?”, at the Departmental Seminar, History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, 30 Jan. 2003.
• Reply to Critchley and McCarthy, at ‘Accounting for literary language: An international interdisciplinary symposium’, University of East Anglia, 1-2 Sep. 2002.
• “Kuhn’s legacy”, at the IIEMCA Annual Workshop, Brunel U., 26-27 Jul. 2002.
• “On On Certainty 501”, at the 9th annual Mind and Society Symposium, Manchester Univ., 6-7 Jun. 2002.
• Reply to Allen and Turvey, at the one-day international symposium on ‘Wittgenstein and film’, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, England, 1 Jun. 2002.
• “How not to misunderstand Thomas Kuhn”, at the Philosophy Department, Williams College, Massachussetts, 4 Apr. 2002.
• “Wittgenstein’s ‘woodsellers’ reconsidered”, at the New School for Social Research, New York, 2 Apr. 2002.
• “Kuhn: a Wittgenstein of the Sciences?”, at ‘Apres la Structure: Kuhn et la philosophie des sciences aujourd’hui’, an international conference at the Institut d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, 16 Mar. 2002.
• “Philosophical problems are not problems of the intellect, but problems of mood”, at the University of Hertfordshire Philosophy Research Seminar, Aldenham, England, 7 Feb. 2002.
• “The philosophy of literature of Salman Rushdie”, at the Literature Club, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 11 Oct. 2001.
• “Thomas Kuhn and ‘human science'”, at The Colloquium, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 10 Oct. 2001.
• “Slicing Time”, at the ‘Orders of Ordinary Action” Conference (July 9-11 2001), the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Manchester Metro. University, Manchester, England, 10 Jul. 2001.
• “Thomas Kuhn on history, politics, sociology, theology, art, and … oh yeah … science”, at the Philosophy and Religion Department, Colgate University, Hamilton NY, 23 Mar. 2001.
• “‘Kuhnian’ incommensurability: in science, social science, and ethics”, at the Philosophy Department Colloquium, SUNY Binghamton, New York, USA, 22 Mar. 2001.
• “Giving an elucidatory reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”, at the Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 2 Mar. 2001.
• “Marx’s critique of conceptual confusion, Wittgenstein’s critique of capital”, at the Kaplan Humanities Centre, NorthWestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 12 Feb. 2001.
• “Giving an elucidatory reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”, at the Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, USA, 2 Feb. 2001.
• “The New Hume versus the New Wittgenstein: Metaphysics versus Therapy”, at the ‘Nature et Naturalisme: Héritages contemporains de Hume’ Conference, at the Université d’Amiens, Amiens, France, 11 Dec. 2000.
• “Is ‘The New Wittgenstein’ really new?”, Keynote Address, ‘Le nouvel Wittgenstein’ Conference, at the Sorbonne (Université Paris I), Paris, France, 9 Dec. 2000.
• “Wittgenstein’s influence on Hume, Nietzsche, Marx etc.”, at the Forum for European Philosophy, Institut Francais, Kensington, London, 21 Nov. 2000.
• “Wittgenstein’s influence on Nietzsche: A Wittgensteinian reading of his predecessors”, at the Department of Philosophy, University of Wales, Lampeter, 15 Nov. 2000.
• “Beyond Relativism, Pluralism, Realism, etc.: reassessing Peter Winch”, at the British Sociological Association Theory Group Conference on Peter Winch, Bristol U., 8-10 Sep. 2000.
• “On wanting to say, ‘All we need is a paradigm, and then we can have normal science'”, at the British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Univ. of Sheffield, 6-7 Jul. 2000.
• “‘Scepticism’ in the service of philosophical clarity: Re-reading Hume in the light of a new understanding of Wittgenstein”, at the International ‘Skepticism and Interpretation’ Conference, ASCA, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6-11 Jun. 2000.
• “The paradox of forgiveness”, at ‘Forgiveness: Traditions and Implications’, a Conference at the Tanner Humanities Centre, University of Utah, USA, 12-15 Apr. 2000.
• “All attempts to solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness only make the problem harder”, at the Senior Seminar, Essex University Philosophy Dept., 23 Mar. 2000.
• “Marx and Wittgenstein on parasitism”, at the International Wittgenstein and Marx Colloquium, Trinity College, Cambridge, 30 Mar. 1999.
• “Are technical terms of any use in the social sciences and philosophy?”, at the termly Philosophy Seminar, POLSOC, University of Exeter, 4 Dec. 1998.
• “Two Wittgensteinian accounts of schizophrenia”, given at the invitation of the Bolton Institute of Higher Education, Bolton, 16 Oct. 1998.
• “Sass versus Diamond on Wittgenstein and ‘schizophrenic language'”, as an invited speaker at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on ‘Philosophy and Psychopathology’, Cornell U., Ithaca NY, 10 Jul. 1998.
• “Sass versus Diamond on Wittgenstein and schizophrenic language”, given at the invitation of the Philosophy Department of the University of Illinois, Chicago, 11 Apr. 1997.
• “A Wittgensteinian critique of Freud – and Fodor”, given at the invitation of the Houston Cognitive Science Initiative, Univ. of Houston, 5 Apr.1997.
• “Louis Sass versus the Conant/Diamond reading of Wittgenstein”, as a ‘Critic’ in the ‘Author meets Critics’ session on Sass’s The paradoxes of delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber and the schizophrenic mind, at the Pacific APA, Berkeley, 29 Mar. 1997.
• “Is it ever possible to forgive anyone?”; given at the Stapleton Society, Philosophy Department of Liverpool University, 21 Oct. 1996.
• Reply to Kevin Meeker’s “Was Hume an Externalist?”, at the Hume Society / British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference, Nottingham, 16 Jul. 1996.
• “Cognitive Sciences, David Hume and ‘Postmodernism'”, given at the invitation of the Cultural Studies Dept., University of Nottingham, 13 Jul. 1996.
• “The geography of (our) society”, at the American Philosophical Association (S.P.G. Meeting), New York NY, 29 Dec. 1995.
• “A taxonomy of scepticisms”, at the NJ Regional Philosophy Association’s Annual Conference, New Brunswick, 19 Nov. 1994.
• “Nature, Culture, Environment”, at the annual PIC Conference, SUNY Binghamton, NY, 16 Apr. 1993.
• “Three pragmatists?: Nelson Goodman, Stephen Stich, Cornel West”, given at the invitation of the Philosophy Department at the University of Houston, Texas, 5 Jun. 1992.
• “From Relativism and Ethnocentrism to Perspectivism”, at the invitation of the Morality and Rationality Seminar, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy, 29 May 1991.
• “Quine and Wittgenstein on Reference, Behaviourism and Language-acquisition”, at the Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference, Route 1, NJ, 5-6 May 1990.
• “Is Derrida’s Nietzsche’s ‘Third Woman’ an Essentialist or a Feminist?”, at the 12th annual ‘Graduate Philosophy Conference’, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 12-14 Apr. 1990.
• Reply to Wing-Chun Wong’s “Do I know I’m in pain?”, at the New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association’s ‘Witgenstein Centennial Conference’, Fairleigh-Dickinson Univ., NJ, 29 Apr. 1989.

Major national radio appearances as a philosopher

• Appeared on ‘Night Waves’ and ‘Free Thinking’ (BBC Radio 3) 8 times since 2012, to discuss:
  • Humanism? [debate with A.C. Grayling: no link available]
  • The 50th anniversary of Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions [16 mins in]
  • The 60th anniversary of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations [25 mins in]
  • Are we living through a new Enlightenment? [25 mins in]
  • Is psychology a science? [35 mins in]
  • Arne Naess [18 mins in]
  • The Word For World Is Forest, Ursula Le Guin [20 mins in]
  • Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World.
• Appeared on ‘The Forum’ [entire programme], the BBC World Service in 2014 to discuss certainty.
• Podcast of panel discussion at 2016 Hay-on-wye festival on ‘The Illusion of Sense’ with Hilary Lawson and Ophelia Dero.

Further impact and engagement activities (selected)

• Given evidence to a number of House of Commons Select Committee inquiries, including on GM and the Precautionary Principle.
• Published author in Resurgence magazine.
• A paid journalist: see the archive of my five years worth of monthly published newspaper columns at the Eastern Daily Press
• Published online significant numbers of articles, including on the LSE sites, at Open Democracy, at Liberal Conspiracy, Left Foot Forward, Le Monde Diplomatique, the New Internationalist, Red Pepper, The Ecologist, The New Statesman, Res Publica, and at the Guardian online. Also, guest blogger with the OECD.
• Published a few articles in specialist ‘trade’ journals; e.g. my commissioned ‘Viewpoint’ piece in Britain’s leading transport policy journal, Local Transport Today, 4 Aug. 2005, “In trying to cut car use, why do we prioritise public transport over walking and cycling?”
• Numerous letters published in national and international newspapers, and in journals such as the LRB and TLS, published seven articles in Green World magazine, an article in Business Spotlight magazine, and three articles in the Morning Star.
• Numerous national and regional TV and radio appearances.
• Several talks at the ‘Where the Light Gets In’ Philosophy Festival at Hay-on-Wye, at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and at other such festivals.
• Regular columnist in The Philosophers’ Magazine.
• Regular blogger at their ‘Talking Philosophy’ site, the most prominent philosophy-centred blog in the world, and at the new The Philosophers Magazine blogsite.
• Former chair of the Green House thinktank.
• Helped to found the All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth.
• Briefed members of parliament and the House of Lords on the merits of the Precautionary Principle. This included a one-to-one meeting with the secretary of state for environment, Michael Gove MP, in December 2017.
• Was a prominent spokesperson for the Extinction Rebellion protests in London in April 2019. This included debates on national television and radio with MPs, ministers and members of the shadow cabinet.

Referees

Please email me for a list of referees to give confidential references.

Finally, for convenient access to many of my academic publications online, go to https://philpapers.org, eastanglia.academia.edu or researchgate.net. See also wikipedia.org.