Alexander James Bird (born 1964) is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

Career

In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, succeeding

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. Previously he was Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

(2018–2020) and the professor of philosophy at the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...

(2003–2017). Bird was lecturer then reader and head of department at the University of Edinburgh (1993–2003). Bird has also taught at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

and at

Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Missi ...

and was a visiting fellow at

All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full me ...

. He was chair of the philosophy sub-panel in

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2014. Bird represented

CULRC Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club (CULRC) was the University Sport rowing, rowing club for lightweight rowing, lightweight male oarsmen at the University of Cambridge, principally to race against Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Cl ...

in the

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

Henley Boat Races The Henley Boat Races were a series of annual rowing races between various crews representing the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. The event included the Lightweight Men's Boat Race from 1975 to 2018, the Women's Boat R ...

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

References

External links

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Alexander Bird's personal website
21st-century British philosophers Living people Academics of King's College London 1964 births British metaphysicians Academics of the University of Bristol Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Philosophers of medicine Bertrand Russell Professors of Philosophy {{UK-philosopher-stub

Career

Books

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