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==