Alexander Bird

Professor of philosophy (and, for a while, of medicine). Sometime composer. Cyclist. European.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@sebastiansalek I don't get the logic of your argument. Is it "These very rich people will be affected. So don't worry about the much less rich people who will also be affected."?

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@PHoyningen We are so very much looking forward to welcoming you to St John's. It will be an exciting term!

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@realevertonjeff @crashballcentre @BBCSport He was nearer after the step than before.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Well, no surprise there. https://t.co/PA6zq920vH

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@JoWolffBSG If you go to public school, Oxbridge, and then the Bar, you can spend almost your entire life in almost identical surroundings, down the the hall, chapel, library, and so forth. (And to a considerable extent the same people, though less so now.)

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@julianHjessop I don’t think that making a second bar of ‘Boost with Glucose’ more expensive is likely to cause hardship.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

Your strategy of incremental sanctions doesn’t work. Cannot work…

That’s why 212 members of Parliament demand a special #EUCO meeting to decide on full sanctions immediately!

My speech👇🏻

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@OptimalBayes @MaartenvSmeden How does the point about conditional probabilities refute objectivism about probabilities? You can have objective conditional probabilities.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@GuyLongworth Agreed!

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@GuyLongworth Okay, sorry! Yes, I agree that our judgments of plausibility/implausibility are themselves not always reliable. And an idea should be given a fair shot before we decide, on careful reflection, that it is implausible and, so, that this a strike against it.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@FerryDanini @GuyLongworth Yes, I agree. It is a Sunday afternoon, and we need something lighthearted for a moment, given the circumstances.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@GuyLongworth The precise degree to what extent implausibility indicates falsity is unclear. But clearly it does to some non-negligible degree. (It certainly does so in the sciences.) Rarely are philosophical theories falsified. We discard theories that the arguments render implausible.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@crookedfootball NATO hasn’t expanded eastward since 2004. I simply don’t see how that is an issue now.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@crookedfootball Nigel Farage seems to have joined the Stop the War Coalition and is blaiming the EU and NATO.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@KevinZollman @daisyldixon My take is exactly that of @KevinZollman

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@westwoodsam1 If I took your approach, Sam, I’d run out of collaborators very quickly.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@birchlse This is all excellent advice, Jonathan.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@william_whyte My goodness. What did he think about tea? Tea at SJC is a very fine thing, and I hope he wasn’t against that too.

[Alexander Bird @ajbirdbrain]

@Heskers @StAndrewsPhil @univofstandrews Katherine was a wonderful person and a wonderful philosopher. (My best philosophy was written by Katherine. Our joint paper was part of my REF2014 submission. But it wasn’t good enough to be part of Katherine’s. Her solo work was much better.)