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