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Alexander Bird | |
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| Born | Alexander James Bird 1964 (age 61–62) |
| Awards | AHRC Fellowship Philosophical Quarterly essay prize Mind Association Senior Research Fellowship |
| Education | |
| Education | Westminster School St John's College, Oxford (BA) LMU Munich St Edmund's College, Cambridge (MPhil) King's College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis | Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology (1991) |
Academic advisor | D. H. Mellor |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| 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] |
Alexander James Bird (born 1964) is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at St John's College, Cambridge.
Career
[edit]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 rowed three times in the Henley Boat Races, in 1984 and 1985 (President) for OULRC against CULRC, and in 1990 for CULRC against OULRC.
On December 11, 2023, he was elected as a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques.[5]
Books
[edit]- Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 1998
- Thomas Kuhn, Princeton University Press, 2000
- Nature's Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2007
- Knowing Science, Oxford University Press, 2022
References
[edit]- ↑ Carroll, John W. (18 June 2008). "Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved 18 March 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ https://academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr/2024/03/04/accueil-des-nouveaux-correspondants-alexander-bird-et-axel-cleeremans/
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