Prof. FAN Ruiping (范瑞平)

BM Baotou, MA CASS, PhD Rice

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Visiting address
LI-5558
Phone: +852 34427488

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Research Interests/Areas

  • Bioethics and health care policy
  • Confucian ethics and politics
  • Comparative philosophy

Biography

Ruiping FAN received his PhD in philosophy from Rice University in Houston. He is currently professor of philosophy in the Department of Public Policy at the City University of Hong Kong. He conducts bioethical research and comparative philosophy drawing on Confucian cultural resources. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine (a bilingual journal in Hong Kong). He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (English in USA) and Associate Editor of the Chinese Medical Ethics journal (Chinese in mainland China). In addition to over 180 journal articles and book chapters (over 100 in English and 80 in Chinese) published, he also authored Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West (in English, 2010) and Contemporary Confucian Bioethics (in Chinese, 2011). He was the editor or co-editor of 10 volumes (5 in English and 5 in Chinese) regarding bioethical and Confucian studies, including a most recent volume titled Sex Robots: Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations (Springer 2021).

Teaching

  • Ethics and public policy
  • Social and political philosophy
  • Health care policy and ethics