Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean is Executive Editor for Physical Sciences and Technology at Harvard University Press. Previously he was Senior Publisher at Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, managing the editorial group at Focal and lending a hand with strategy and business development; before that he was an Executive Editor at Wiley, acquiring text, reference, and academic books in philosophy and related fields, managing the philosophy list and several other acquisitions editors. He studied German and philosophy as an undergraduate at Oberlin College, and went on to receive an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He has taught courses both at the college and high school level in ethical theory, contemporary moral issues, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and environmental philosophy.