WITTGENSTEIN VS. RAWLS A conversation with Dr. Rupert Read

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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, specialising 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. His book Philosophy for Life: Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture, was released in July 2007.

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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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In our conversation Dr. Read offered a fierce criticism of contemporary liberalism as too individualist, too static, and unable to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

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A small Mea Culpa on my part: As an interviewer I probably tried to fit too many topics into the interview but Dr. Read did a good job of covering a lot of complex ground within the time.