Alexander Bird

Alexander Bird
Born
Alexander James Bird

1964 (age 61–62)
AwardsQueen's Scholar, Westminster School
Thomas White Scholar, St John's College, Oxford
AHRC Fellowship
Philosophical Quarterly essay prize
Mind Association Senior Research Fellowship
Education
EducationWestminster School
St John's College, Oxford (BA)
Maximilianeum and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
St Edmund's College, Cambridge (MPhil)
King's College, Cambridge (PhD)
ThesisArithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology (1991)
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
King's College London
Main interestsPhilosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, metaphysics, epistemology
Notable ideasDispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature
Websitehttp://www.alexanderbird.org

Alexander James Bird (born 1964) is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at St John's College, Cambridge.

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