Yang Guorong
The Director of the Institute is Prof. Yang Guorong. Born in Shanghai in October 1957, Prof. Yang obtained his PHD in 1998 and was promoted as Professor in 1991 and then Doctorial Advisor in 1994. From 1998 to 2000, he was the chair of the Philosophy Department at ECNU. Prof. Yang was visiting scholar at Oxford University (1994-1995) and Harvard University (1999-2000). He is now Professor of the Philosophy Department at ECNU, guest Professor of the Philosophy Department at Wuhan University, and also serves on the Academic Evaluating committee of the State Council, the International Union of Confucianism, Commissioner of the Confucius Fund, the Chinese Philosophy Committee under Shanghai Philosophy Academy. In addition to 100-odd papers, more than ten books of Prof. Yang have been circulated both at home and abroad, including A Systemic Study on Wang Yangming and His Disciples 王学通论（Shanghai, 1990; Seoul, 1994; Taibei, 1997）,New Exposition on Mencius 孟子新论( Taibei, 1993), The Good as an Unfold Process: The Development of Confucian Value-system and Its Transformation in Modern Times 善的历程：儒家价值体系的历史衍化及其现代转换（Shanghai,1994; Taibei,1996）,Positivism with Modern Chinese Philosophy 实证主义与中国近代哲学（Taibei,1995; Beijing, 1996）, Treatise on Wang Yangming's Philosophy 心学之思（ Beiing,1997; Taibei, 1999）, Reason versus Value 理性与价值 (Shanghai,1998), Thinking of Being 面向存在之思 (Taibei, 1998; Shengyan, 2000), The Metaphysical Dimension of Science: The Formation and Transformation of Scientism in Modern China 科学的形上之维：中国近代科学主义的形成与衍化( Shanghai,1999), Thinking in History 史与思( Hangzhou, 1999), Ethics and Existence: Treatise on Moral Philosophy 伦理与存在:道德哲学研究 (Shanghai, 2001; Taibei, 2002).