Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK
James Read is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He has written over 60 research articles in leading journals in Philosophy and Physics. He is the author of Special Relativity (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Oxford University Press, 2023), and (with Emily Adlam and Niels Linnemann) Constructive Axiomatics for Spacetime Physics (Oxford University Press, 2025). He is also the co-editor (with Nicholas J. Teh) of the volume, The Philosophy and Physics of Noether’s Theorems (Cambridge University Press, 2022).