In the second part of my conversation with Rupert Read, we cover private language, essential contestability, and political ideologies.  We also discuss if it is possible to escape political ideologies or the use of power: Can we carve out true friendships separate from the forms of oppression that surround us? 

 

Dr. Read studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Balliol College, Oxford, before undertaking postgraduate studies in the United States at Princeton University and Rutgers University.

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He is currently at the University of East Anglia, specializing in philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and environmental philosophy. He has contributed to many books, including, in 2002, Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolution, on the work of Thomas Kuhn, and, in 2005, Film As Philosophy: Essays in Cinema After Wittgenstein And Cavell. 

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He is active in the UK Green Party and is a strong environmental campaigner. He stood in the Norwich North by-election, 2009, as the Green Party candidate, and returned the biggest by-election vote share in Green History with 9.7% of the vote.

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You can see more of his work at:  https://rupertread.net

 

Follow him on twitter: @greenrupertread

 

And purchase his books The New Wittgenstein and A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment.