John Hare completed a BA at Oxford in 1971 in Literae Humaniores, and a PhD at Princeton in 1975 in the Classical Philosophy program. He taught at Lehigh University from 1974-1989, including two years as staff on the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and then at Calvin College from 1989-2003. He has been Noah Porter Professorship in Philosophical Theology at Yale University since 2002. He has published eight books and about a hundred
articles in areas including ethics, theology, the philosophy of Aristotle, Scotus, Kant, Kierkegaard, contemporary analytic moral philosophy, foreign affairs and aesthetics. He is a published composer of church music.