Alexander Bird

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Alexander Bird is affiliated with the following schools: University of Bristol, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, King's College London, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Alexander James Bird 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 and the professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol . Bird 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 Research Excellence Framework 2014.

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Natural Kinds (1988) (695)
Nature's metaphysics : laws and properties (2007) (429)
Nature's Metaphysics (2007) (367)
Dispositions and Antidotes (1998) (297)
SOCIAL KNOWING: THE SOCIAL SENSE OF ‘SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE’ (2010) (131)
What Is Scientific Progress (2007) (119)
The Dispositionalist Conception of Laws (2005) (99)
The Regress of Pure Powers (2007) (75)
Overpowering: How the Powers Ontology Has Overreached Itself (2016) (66)
The ultimate argument against Armstrong's contingent necessitation view of laws (2005) (62)
Scientific progress as accumulation of knowledge: a reply to Rowbottom (2008) (59)
Kuhn's wrong turning (2002) (53)
When is There a Group that Knows?: Distributed Cognition, Scientific Knowledge, and the Social Epistemic Subject (2014) (52)
Laws and Essences (2005) (51)
Necessarily, salt dissolves in water (2001) (46)
A Paradigm (2020) (40)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and its Significance: An Essay Review of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition* (2012) (40)
Eliminative Abduction—Examples from Medicine (2010) (38)
When Is There a Group that Knows (2014) (38)
Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (2008) (38)
Inference to the Only Explanation (2007) (38)
Dispositions, rules, and finks (2008) (35)
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy (2020) (35)
The epistemological function of Hill's criteria. (2011) (34)
The metaphysics of natural kinds (2018) (33)
The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds (2010) (29)
Structural Properties Revisited (2009) (29)
STRONG NECESSITARIANISM: THE NOMOLOGICAL IDENTITY OF POSSIBLE WORLDS (2004) (29)
Is Evidence Non‐Inferential? (2004) (29)
The Historical Turn in the Philosophy of Science (2013) (26)
Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference (2005) (26)
On Whether Some Laws are Necessary (2002) (26)
Potency and Modality (2006) (25)
The epistemology of science—a bird’s-eye view (2010) (23)
The Myth of the Framework Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem (1996) (23)
What Can Cognitive Science Tell Us About Scientific Revolutions (2012) (19)
Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism (2011) (19)
Systematicity, knowledge, and bias. How systematicity made clinical medicine a science (2019) (17)
Causation and the Manifestation of Powers (2010) (17)
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2015) (17)
Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds (2010) (16)
Images of Empiricism (2007) (16)
Antidotes all the way down? (2004) (16)
Limitations of Power (2013) (15)
I—Fundamental Powers, Evolved Powers, and Mental Powers (2018) (15)
Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Positivist Legacy (2004) (14)
A Posteriori Knowledge of Natural Kind Essences: A Defense (2007) (14)
Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism* (2003) (13)
Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2008) (12)
Essences and Natural Kinds (2009) (11)
Causal exclusion and evolved emergent properties (2008) (10)
Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Knowledge (2018) (10)
Unexpected a posteriori necessary laws of nature (2005) (10)
Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry (1996) (10)
Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics: Are any kinds ontologically fundamental? (2011) (9)
Evidence and Inference (2018) (9)
Kuhn and the Historiography of Science (2015) (9)
Lowe on a posteriori essentialism (2008) (8)
Scientific Revolutions and Inference to the Best Explanation (1999) (8)
The aim of belief and the aim of science (2019) (8)
Monistic Dispositional Essentialism (2011) (8)
Three conservative Kuhns (2003) (7)
Explanation and Metaphysics (2005) (7)
Creativity without Value (2018) (7)
Further Antidotes: a Response to Gundersen (2000) (7)
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited (2012) (7)
Underdetermination and evidence (2007) (7)
Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2011) (7)
Referring to Natural Kind Thingamajigs, and What They Are: A Reply to Needham (2012) (7)
Resemblance Nominalism and counterparts (2003) (6)
V *—NATURALIZING KUHN (2004) (6)
Dispositions, causes and propensities in science : Antidotes all the way down? (2004) (6)
Arguing about science (2013) (5)
Kuhn and Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science (2004) (5)
Scepticism and contrast classes (2001) (5)
ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE (2013) (4)
Thomas Kuhn's Relativistic Legacy (2011) (4)
Internalism, Externalism, and the KK Principle (2019) (4)
Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything (2014) (4)
Laws and Criteria (2002) (4)
Group Belief and Knowledge (2019) (4)
James Jurin and the avoidance of bias in collecting and assessing evidence on the effects of variolation (2019) (4)
Understanding disease and illness (2017) (4)
Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (2011) (3)
Rationality and the structure of self-deception (1994) (3)
Nozick’s fourth condition (2003) (3)
Scientific realism and epistemology (2017) (3)
Free Inquiry: The Haldane Principle and the Significance of Scientific Research (2013) (2)
Scientific and Theological Realism (2007) (2)
Review: Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis (2001) (2)
Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (2006) (2)
What can philosophy tell us about Evidence-Based Medicine? An assessment of Jeremy Howick’sThe Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine (2011) (2)
The Metaphysics of Powers. Their grounding and their manifestations (2010) (2)
MANIFESTING TIME AND SPACE: BACKGROUND-FREE PHYSICAL THEORIES (2013) (2)
Thomas Kuhn: Paradigms (2000) (2)
ARE ANY KINDS ONTOLOGICALLY FUNDAMENTAL ? NATURAL KINDS AND NATURAL LAWS IN E . J . LOWE ’ S FOUR CATEGORY ONTOLOGY (2011) (2)
Chance and Temporal Asymmetry (2014) (2)
Knowing Science (2022) (2)
Naming and Reference (1994) (2)
The epistemological argument against Lewis’s regularity view of laws (2008) (2)
Review: Scientific Realism; How Science Tracks Truth (2002) (1)
SELECTION AND EXPLANATION (2007) (1)
Scientific Realism and Three Problems for Inference to the Best Explanation (2020) (1)
Twelve Modern Philosophers (2009) (1)
… And Then Again, He Might Not Be (2009) (1)
DAVID ARMSTRONG, CHARLIE MARTIN, and ULLIN PLACE, edited by TIM CRANE Dispositions: A Debate; STEPHEN MUMFORD Dispositions (2001) (1)
Review of Popper,K - The Myth of the Framework and Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem (1996) (1)
Can Scientific Practices Put Norms Back into Nature? (2004) (1)
Human Kinds, Interactive Kinds, and Realism about Kinds (2014) (1)
Review of Shin,SJ - The Logical Status of Diagrams (1996) (1)
Probability and Scientific Inference (2006) (1)
The philosophy of history of science of Thomas Kuhn (2012) (1)
Kuhn and Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century (2004) (1)
Possibility and the analysis of dispositions (2020) (1)
Fundamentals of Philosophy (2003) (1)
Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Social Study of Science (2012) (1)
Thomas Kuhn: Bibliography (2000) (0)
Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals (2011) (0)
Dispositional Essentialism, Modality, and Intentionality (2007) (0)
The metaphysics of natural kinds (2015) (0)
Introduction (2005) (0)
The Regress Objection (2007) (0)
Waismann Versus Ewing on Causality (2011) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Incommensurability and meaning (2000) (0)
Routledge Companion to Epistemology (2009) (0)
10 Structural properties (2002) (0)
The Social Sense of ‘ Scientific Knowledge ’ Forthcoming in Philosophical Perspectives (2010) (0)
How Can Loveliness Be a Guide to Truth? Inference to the Best Explanation and Exemplars (2020) (0)
Laws of Nature (2006) (0)
Cees Leijenhorst.The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes’ Natural Philosophy. (Medieval and Early Modern Science, 3.) xvi+242 pp., bibl., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2002. $97, €83 (cloth). (2003) (0)
Remarks on Our Knowledge of Modal Facts (2008) (0)
Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of NatureBook ReviewsBook Reviews (2014) (0)
Fred Gifford (ed.): Philosophy of Medicine (2012) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Normal and revolutionary science (2000) (0)
Internalism, Externalism, and the KK Principle (2019) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Kuhn's context (2000) (0)
Topics in Contemporary Philosophy vol. 8: Carving Nature at its Joints (2011) (0)
Fred Gifford (ed.): Philosophy of Medicine (2012) (0)
Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D.H. Mellor (2003) (0)
2 An experiment in physics can never condemn an isolated hypothesis but only a (2012) (0)
A Dispositional Account of Causation, with Some Remarks on the Ontology of Dispositions (2020) (0)
Creativity and Philosophy (2017) (0)
Review of Stevenson,L & Byerly,H - The Many Faces of Science (1997) (0)
SCIENTIFIC AND THEOLOGICAL REALISM Alexander Bird 1 Introduction (2006) (0)
Dispositions and Causes (2009) (0)
Are There Any Laws, and If So What Are They? (2007) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
THE METAPHYSICS OF PANDISPOSITIONALISM (2017) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Notes (2000) (0)
Manifesting Space and Time: Background-free physical theories (2017) (0)
Natural kinds and modality (2020) (0)
Manifesting Space and Time (2015) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Perception and world change (2000) (0)
LANGE AND LAWS , KINDS , AND COUNTERFACTUALS Alexander Bird (2009) (0)
Looking for laws (2006) (0)
Philosophy of Science a Unified Approach, written by Gerhard Schurz (2017) (0)
Acknowledgements (2013) (0)
Dispositional Essentialism at the Laws of Nature (2007) (0)
INCOMMENSURABILITY NATURALIZED. Commentary (2008) (0)
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE QUA EPISTEMOLOGY (2010) (0)
Realism and Religion (2007) (0)
A simple introduction to epidemiological modelling—the SIR model (2020) (0)
Peano and Russell (2017) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Dedication (2000) (0)
Essays in Collective Epistemology (2014) (0)
The Illusion of Nomic Contingency (2007) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Kuhn's legacy (2000) (0)
Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (2011) (0)
Reviews-Thomas Kuhn (2002) (0)
Thomas Kuhn: Preface (2000) (0)
An Armstrongian Defense of Dispositional Monist Accounts of Laws of Nature (2022) (0)
Special Issue of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2017) (0)
A Foreword to E. J. Lowe’s Chapter (2015) (0)
Progress and relativism (2000) (0)
Review of Moor,J & Bynum,T - The Digital Phoenix (1998) (0)
The Explanatory Power of Dispositional Essentialism (2014) (0)
Introduction—Laws and Properties (2007) (0)
Review: Science, Truth, and Democracy (2003) (0)
Discussion Kuhn , naturalism , and the positivist legacy (2004) (0)
Review of Dilworth,C - The Metaphysics of Science (1997) (0)
Systematicity, knowledge, and bias. How systematicity made clinical medicine a science (2017) (0)
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50 Years On (2015) (0)
Editorial (2005) (0)
Introduction: The nature of Science (2006) (0)
Can There be Intrinsic Finks and Antidotes (2012) (0)
Pursuit of Truth (1991) (0)
Failed replications only to be expected (2018) (0)

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