Professor Alexander Bird

Prior to coming to Cambridge, Alexander Bird was the Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at King's College London and Director of the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine project. Previously he held the chair in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, and was lecturer and then reader at the University of Edinburgh before that. He has also held visiting positions at Dartmouth College, Saint Louis University, Monash University, and the Università degli studi di Bergamo, and has been a visiting fellow at Exeter College, Oxford and at All Souls College, Oxford. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and a member (correspondant) of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Institut de France).

Professor Bird gives supervisions and lectures in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophical logic. He frequently supervises St John’s students for the following papers:

Part IA (first year) Paper 1 Metaphysics;

Part IB (second year) Paper 1 Knowledge, Language, and World;

Part II (third year) Paper 1 Metaphysics, Paper 6 Philosophy of Science, Paper 8 Philosophical Logic.