Peter Lewis studied physics at Oxford University and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught philosophy at Texas Tech University and the University of Miami, and he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He has been a visiting scholar at Hong Kong University, the University of Sydney, and Durham University. His work concentrates on the foundations of quantum mechanics, but he has also published on scientific realism and on the epistemology of self-locating belief.