Arie Rip (born 13 June 1941, in Kethel en Spaland) is a Dutch professor emeritus of Philosophy of Science and Technology.

The WTMC is a formal collaboration of Dutch researchers studying the development of science, technology and modern culture.

In 2006 Rip formally retired as the Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente, a position he held since 1987.

[2][3] He has published extensively on various topics concerning the philosophy and sociology of scientific and technological developments, and on science and innovation policy.

[8] In 2022 Rip received for his oeuvre the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S),[9] which will be awarded to him in the second week of December, 2022, during a meeting of the Society at the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.