Xiangdong Xu

Xiangdong Xu is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Zhejiang University, and Director of the Zhejiang University Center for Human Values. Before coming to Zhejiang University he was Professor of Philosophy and deputy director of the Center for Applied Ethics at Peking University. He received his Ph.D in Philosophy from Columbia University with a dissertation on naturalism, normativity and practical reason under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Pogge. He was also a Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University. His research interests lie in ethics (both normative ethics and metaethics), moral psychology, and political philosophy. He is at the present interested in the ethical foundations of global justice, the ethics of human enhancement and related issues in bioethics, and in the nature of moral responsibility. In his book Rights, Justice and Responsibility (in Chinese, two volumes, forthcoming in Zhejiang University Press, 2021), he is defending a Rawlsian approach to global justice.