Alexander Bird

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