Paul Lee (September 20, 1931 - October 20, 2022) was a professor of existential and religious philosophy living in Santa Cruz, California. He was chair of the Romero Institute (formerly the Christic Institute). While an assistant professor of Humanities at MIT in the 1960s, Lee was a founding editor of the infamous Psychedelic Review, started by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) at Harvard.