Jonathan Jacobs is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a member of the Doctoral Faculties of Philosophy and Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. He works on topics at the intersection of Ethics, Politics and Criminal Justice, and also on issues in medieval moral philosophy and Jewish philosophy. He has
been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, the University of St. Andrews, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has received grants from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Littauer Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York.