Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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He was educated at Yale, Cambridge, Rockefeller University (where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy with a dissertation on Aristotle's logic) and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Much of his work involves the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. In addition to work involving Freud, he has also written widely on Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, focusing on ideas of the human psyche. He has won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for Psychoanalysis three times for work that advances psychoanalysis. Before moving to Chicago, Lear taught in the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Clare College, and the Philosophy Department at Yale. He is married to Gabriel Richardson Lear, a fellow member of the philosophy department at Chicago who also works on ancient philosophy. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
His books include: