Jiyuan Yu

Jiyuan Yu
Born Jiyuan Yu
July 5, 1964
Died November 3, 2016
Alma mater University of Guelph
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
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 moral philosopher noted for his work on virtue ethics. Yu was a long-time and highly admired Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York, 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 received his education in China at both Shandong University and Renmin University, in Italy at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and in Canada at the University of Guelph. His primary areas of research and teaching included Ancient Greek Philosophy (esp. Plato, Aristotle), and Ancient Chinese Philosophy (esp. Classical Confucianism).

He served on the Editorial Boards of History of Philosophy Quarterly (2002-2005), World Philosophy (2000-present), Frontiers in Philosophy (2006–present), the Chinese translation of the Complete Works of Aristotle (1988-1998), and the book series on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy (New York: Global Publications). He received the University's Exceptional Scholar (Young Investigator) Award,[1] 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 served as Director of the Confucius Institute at SUNY Buffalo.[4] He was a Wu Yuzhang Chair Professor (2007-2009) at Renmin University of China, 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).[5]

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