Education
Lewens completed his Doctor of Philosophy thesis at the Department of HPS, Cambridge University in 2001.
Lewens completed his Doctor of Philosophy thesis at the Department of HPS, Cambridge University in 2001.
He became a lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge soon after completing his doctoral thesis. He now serves as a governor at Exeter School where he was formerly a pupil. Lewens has written and lectured extensively on evolution and his book on this subject, Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (2004) received wide critical acclaim, as did his 2007 monograph on Charles.
Lewens is a Fellow of Clare College, where he serves as Director of Studies in Philosophy and he is a member of the academic staff and lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS). In 2009, he was elected a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He is a member of the Council’s Working Party on human bodies in medicine and research (report to be published autumn 2011).