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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.
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.
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