Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy

The Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy is the senior professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge.^[1] It was established in 1896 and named the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy in 2010, after a successful fundraising appeal to endow the post.^[1] The incumbent Bertrand Russell Professor is Alexander Bird, who succeeded Huw Price in October 2020.^[2]

• James Ward (1896–1925)
• G. E. Moore (1925–1939)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1939–1947)
• G. H. von Wright (1948–1951)
• John Wisdom (1952–1968)
• Elizabeth Anscombe (1970–1986)
• D. H. Mellor (1986–1999)
• Simon Blackburn (2001–2011)
• Huw Price (2011–2020)
• Alexander Bird (2020–present)

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