Alexander Bird
Alexander Bird | |
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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 the University of Cambridge.
Career
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Weinberg, Justin (30 January 2020). "Bird from KCL to Cambridge's Russell Professorship". Daily Nous.
- ^ "Bird from Bristol to KCL". Daily Nous. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ "Panel membership: REF 2014". Retrieved 16 March 2019.
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