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]

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

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.

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