Alexander Bird

Alexander James Bird (born 1964) is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at St John's College, Cambridge.

Alexander Bird
Born	Alexander James Bird
Awards	Queen's Scholar, Westminster School Thomas White Scholar, St John's College, Oxford AHRC Fellowship Philosophical Quarterly essay prize Mind Association Senior Research Fellowship
Education
Education	King's College, Cambridge (PhD) St Edmund's College, Cambridge (MPhil) Maximilianeum and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich St John's College, Oxford (BA) Westminster School
Thesis	Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology (1991)
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Bristol King's College London
Main interests	Philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, metaphysics, epistemology
Website	http://www.alexanderbird.org

Career

In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, succeeding Huw Price.^[1] Previously he was Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at King's College London (2018–2020) and the professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol (2003–2017).^[2] Bird was lecturer then reader and head of department at the University of Edinburgh (1993–2003). Bird has also taught at Dartmouth College and at Saint Louis University and was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was chair of the philosophy sub-panel in Research Excellence Framework 2014.^[3]

Bird represented CULRC in the 1990 Henley Boat Races against OULRC.

Books

• Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 1998
• Thomas Kuhn, Acumen/Princeton University Press, 2000
• Nature’s Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2007
• Knowing Science, Oxford University Press, 2022

See also

• Department of Philosophy, King's College London