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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. 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). 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.

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

References

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

External links

• Alexander Bird at KCL
• Alexander Bird, Google Scholar
• Alexander Bird's personal website

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