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 the University of 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]

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