Steven James Bartlett was born in Mexico City, educated in Mexico, the U.S., and France. He is the son of American writer-artist Paul Alexander Bartlett and poet Elizabeth Bartlett. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books and research monographs, and numerous published papers in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of science, and psychology.

Bartlett received degrees from Raymond College (an Oxford-style honors college of the University of the Pacific), the University of California in Santa Barbara, and the Université de Paris. His research has been supported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the Lilly Endowment, the Alliance Française, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the National Science Foundation, the RAND Corporation, and others.

He has served as Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University and the University of Florida, and as research fellow both at the Max-Planck-Institute in Starnberg, Germany, and at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. He currently holds the honorary faculty research position of Affiliated Scholar at Willamette University. A more detailed biography and discussion of his publications are available from Wikipedia [...]