Alexander Bird

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. 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). 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.

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.

Books Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 1998 Thomas Kuhn, Princeton University Press, 2000 Nature's Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2007 Knowing Science, Oxford University Press, 2022