Professor Chou Ren

Chou Ren is a native of Zhumadian City, Henan Province, China, and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Wuhan University. He is the Director of the Institute of Applied Ethics at Southwest University, China, and serves as the academic leader of the Philosophy Discipline. He is a professor of philosophy, a Ph.D. supervisor, a postdoctoral co-supervisor, and a member of the university's Academic Committee. Additionally, he is an academic visitor at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, UK, and has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, USA. Moreover, Chou Ren is a member of the National Teaching Guidance Committee for Professional Degree in Applied Ethics, an executive member of the Chinese Society for Ethics, and the head of the National First-Class Undergraduate Program in Philosophy at Southwest University. He is also a member of the Committee of Science and Technology Ethics of Chongqing Municipality, the head of the teaching team of the first-class excellent course “Applied Ethics” in Chongqing, and the leader of Chongqing Applied Ethics graduate supervisor team. Furthermore, he acts as the vice president of Chongqing Science and Technology Ethics Society.
His research focuses on applied ethics and he has published more than 100 academic papers in Chinese journals including Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Trends, Studies in Dialectics of Nature, World Philosophy, Morality and Civilization, Studies in Ethics, and Philosophy and Culture. His major works encompass Hegel’s Organic Thought in Ethics (2007), Foundations of Ethics (2011), The Applied Ethics of Human Rights (2014), Ethics (2015), The System of Ethics (2016), Applied Ethics (2020), The System of Bioethics (2021), Insights into Human Ethical Thought (2022), and The Ethical System of the Right of mitigating Human Vulnerability (2024).