Junren Wan

Professor Junren Wan is professor of philosophy and ethics and chair of the department of philosophy at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Ethics Society and a member of the editorial boards of The Journal for Confucian Studies, The Journal of Open Times, The Journal of Tsinghua University, and The Journal of China Scholarship. The author of more than 160 articles in both Chinese and English, he has translated a number of philosophical works into Chinese including Selected Readings of John Rawls, Political Liberalism by John Rawls, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry and Who's Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre, and the Selected Writings of William James. His published books include An Ethical Critique of Modernity, Ethical Discourse of Modernity; Search for a Universal Ethics; Moral Dimension: An Introduction to Economic Ethics; Contrasts and Perspectives: A Comparative Study of Western Ethics and Chinese Ethics; We Are All Near to Our God, and the two-volume work A History of Contemporary Western Ethics.