Alexander Bird

**Alexander James Bird**
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
Institutions	King's College London University of Bristol
Thesis	Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology (1991)
Main interests	Philosophy of science, Philosophy and history of medicine, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Website	http://www.alexanderbird.org

Alexander James Bird (born 1964) is a British philosopher and Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at King's College London.

Career

Previously, he was the professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol.[1] Before that he was lecturer then reader and head of department at the University of Edinburgh. 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 REF 2014.[2]

In 2020 Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He will move to Cambridge during the academic year 2020 after the retirement of the current Bertrand Russell Professor, Huw Price.[3]

gollark: Like, bigly a lot, literally.

gollark: There's a lot of water, though.

gollark: *Don't be like Sinthorion*

gollark: *Sinthorion was detained indefinitely under Some Stupid "Antiterrorism" Act and was never seen again.*

gollark: *Sinthorion is immediately arrested for suggesting such a thing because of widespread mass surveillance*

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"Panel membership: REF 2014". Retrieved 16 March 2019.
Weinberg, Justin (30 January 2020). "Bird from KCL to Cambridge's Russell Professorship". Daily Nous.

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