Alexander Bird

Alexander Bird
Alexander Bird
Born	Alexander James Bird
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
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
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Bristol; King's College London
Thesis	Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology (1991)
Main interests	Philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, metaphysics, epistemology
Website	http://www.alexanderbird.org

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

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.

^ Weinberg, Justin (30 January 2020). "Bird from KCL to Cambridge's Russell Professorship". Daily Nous.
^ "Bird from Bristol to KCL". Daily Nous. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^ "Panel membership: REF 2014". Retrieved 16 March 2019.

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