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Jiyuan Yu | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 5, 1964 |
| Died | November 3, 2016(2016-11-03) (aged 52) Buffalo, New York, United States[1] |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Guelph Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy,Chinese Philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Main interests | Ancient Greek Philosophy,Ancient Chinese Philosophy,Metaphysics,Ethics |
| Notable ideas | virtue ethics,Eudaimonia, focal meaning (pros hen) |
Jiyuan Yu (July 5, 1964 – November 3, 2016) was a Chinesemoral philosopher noted for his work onvirtue ethics. Yu was a Professor of Philosophy at theState University of New York at Buffalo starting in 1997. Prior to his professorship, Yu completed a three-year post as a research fellow at the University of Oxford, England (1994-1997). He studied in China at bothShandong University andRenmin University, in Italy atScuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and in Canada at theUniversity of Guelph. His primary areas of research and teaching includedAncient Greek Philosophy (esp.Plato,Aristotle), andAncient Chinese Philosophy (esp.Classical Confucianism).
He served on the Editorial Boards ofHistory of Philosophy Quarterly (2002-2005),World Philosophy (2000-present),Frontiers in Philosophy (2006–present), the Chinese translation of theComplete Works of Aristotle (1988-1998), and the book series onChinese and Comparative Philosophy (New York: Global Publications). He received the University's Exceptional Scholar (Young Investigator) Award,[2] as well as the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002.[2] He was appointed a 2003–2004 Fellow at the National Humanities Center[3] and a SUNY Buffalo Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow in the spring of 2008.
Yu was Director of the Confucius Institute at SUNY Buffalo.[4] He was a Wu Yuzhang Chair Professor (2007-2009) at Renmin University, and a Changjiang Chair Professor at Shandong University. Yu also served as President (2012-2013) and Executive Director (2012-2016) of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP).
On November 3, 2016, Yu died from cancer in Buffalo, New York at age 52.[1]
