Alexander Bird
British philosopher
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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.
1964 (age 61–62)
Thomas White Scholar, St John's College, Oxford
AHRC Fellowship
Philosophical Quarterly essay prize
Mind Association Senior Research Fellowship
Alexander Bird | |
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| Born | Alexander James Bird 1964 (age 61–62) |
| 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 | Westminster School St John's College, Oxford (BA) Maximilianeum and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich St Edmund's College, Cambridge (MPhil) King's College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis | Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology (1991) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary 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 |
| Notable ideas | Dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature [1] |
| Website | http://www.alexanderbird.org |
Career
In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, succeeding Huw Price.[2] 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).[3] 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.[4]
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
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