Neil Lewis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. An Australian citizen, he received an honors degree in philosophy from the University of Melbourne in Australia and followed this with a Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary interests are in medieval philosophy, especially early thirteenth-century British philosophy, and even more particularly, Robert Grosseteste. In addition, he has a keen interest in modern jazz and plays jazz bass in the Washington, D.C. area.

His research, at the present, is focused on Robert Grosseteste. He is currently completing a critical edition of Grosseteste's De libero arbitrio and is working on a translation of and commentary on Grosseteste's philosophical writings and a study of Grosseteste's views on time. His recent publications include: "William of Auvergne's Account of the Enuntiabile: Its Relations to Nominalism and the Doctrine of Eternal Truths," Vivarium 33 (1995), 113-36; "Robert Grosseteste and the Church of Fathers, " in The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, I. Backus ed. (Brill, 1997), 1: 197-229; "Power and Contingency in Robert Grosseteste and Duns Scotus," in John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics, L. Honnefelder et al, eds. (Brill, 1996), 205-25; and "The First Recension of Robert Grosseteste's De libero arbitrio," in Mediaeval Studies 53 (1991), 1-88.