Lewens is a Fellow of Clare College, where he serves as Director of Studies in Philosophy[2] and he is a member of the academic staff and lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS).
[3] Lewens completed his PhD 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.
[6] 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,[7][8][9][10] as did his 2007 monograph on Charles Darwin.
[11][12][13][14] In 2008, Lewens was one of eleven recipients of the University of Cambridge's Pilkington Prize for the quality of his teaching.