To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily

Jonathan Lear is the John  U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He was educated at Yale, the University of Cambridge, and Rockefeller University where he received his Ph.D.  in Philosophy in 1978. Before coming to the University of Chicago, he taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Clare College. He then taught at Yale, where he was the Kingman Brewster Professor of the Humanities and served as Chair of the Philosophy Department.