He is Regular Visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn Centre[1] and is the co-editor in chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

From 2013 to 2016, he also held a twenty-percent faculty appointment in the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences.

[2] Rupert's early research focused on naturalistic theories of mental content and related questions about concept acquisition.

[13][14] Rupert's interest in distributed cognition gave rise to an adjacent research program, on the topic of group minds.

According to the former proposal, cognitive science should attend to the sheer number of mental representations with the same content that contribute to the production of an action or form of behavior.

[18] In addition, Rupert has an ongoing interest in epistemology, which has produced papers on metaphilosophy, the a priori,[19] and on the role of so-called subpersonal processing in the determination of epistemic value.