Carveth Read

Carveth Read (16 March 1848 – 6 December 1931) was a 19th- and 20th-century British philosopher and logician. He was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, the third son of Edward Read and Elizabeth Truscott. Read attended the University of Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in Moral Sciences in 1873 and an M.A. in 1877. He also studied at Leipzig and Heidelberg Universities. In 1877, he married Evelyn Thompson. From 1878, he lectured at Wren's 'Coaching' establishment in London. He served as the Grote professor of philosophy of mind and logic at University College London from 1903 to 1911, and then as a lecturer in comparative psychology at UCL from 1911 to 1921. Read's philosophical work was influenced by John Stuart Mill and Alexander Bain. He is known for his book *Logic: Deductive and Inductive*, and for his contributions to the study of human evolution, particularly his early advocacy of the hunting hypothesis. He died in Solihull, Warwickshire, England.