Alexander Bird
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{{short description|British philosopher}}
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|era = 21st-century philosophy
|name = Alexander Bird
|birth_name = Alexander James Bird
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|school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
| institutions = University of Bristol
King's College London
| main_interests = Philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, metaphysics, epistemology
| thesis_title = Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology
| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/556766532
| thesis_year = 1991
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| 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
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|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
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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.
Career
In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, succeeding Huw Price.{{cite web |last1=Weinberg |first1=Justin |title=Bird from KCL to Cambridge's Russell Professorship |url=https://dailynous.com/2020/01/30/bird-kcl-cambridge-russell-professorship/ |website=Daily Nous |date=30 January 2020}} 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).{{cite web |title=Bird from Bristol to KCL |url=http://dailynous.com/2017/07/27/bird-bristol-kcl/ |website=Daily Nous |accessdate=17 December 2018 |date=27 July 2017}} 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.{{cite web |title=Panel membership: REF 2014 |url=https://www.ref.ac.uk/2014/panels/panelmembership/ |accessdate=16 March 2019}}
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
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External links
- [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alexander-bird Alexander Bird at KCL]
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8PytVRIAAAAJ&hl=en Alexander Bird], Google Scholar
- [http://www.alexanderbird.org/ Alexander Bird's personal website]
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Category:21st-century British philosophers
Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:British metaphysicians
Category:Academics of the University of Bristol
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
Category:Philosophers of medicine
Category:Bertrand Russell Professors of Philosophy
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