Sun Xiaoling, female, Han ethnicity, native of Shanghai. She joined the university in August 2020 and holds the position of Professor. She currently serves as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Nanchang University, and is a peer review expert for the National Social Science Fund.

  Educational Background:

  •Ph.D. in Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, USA (September 1999–August 2004)

  •Completed doctoral coursework, Northwestern University, USA (September 1997–July 1999)

  •M.A. in Philosophy, Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Peking University (September 1994–July 1997)

  •B.A., Department of English, Shenzhen University (September 1985–July 1989)

  Research Directions for Student Supervision:

  (1) Kantian Philosophy

  (2) Phenomenology (Husserl and Heidegger)

  (3) Modern and Contemporary Anglo-American Ethical and Political Philosophy (Rawls, Hume, Classical Contract Theory, etc.)

  Contact Email: 1619450060@qq.com

  Primary Research Fields and Interests:

  Modern and contemporary Western ethics and political philosophy, phenomenology, and German idealism.

  Courses Taught:

  Introduction to Ethics(full English course), Selected Readings in Ethical Classics (Contemporary Ethics)(full English course), History of Western Ethics (From Ancient Greece to Modern Times)(full English course), Political Philosophy I (Social Contract Theory: Hobbes' Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Rousseau's The Social Contract), Political Philosophy II (Rawls' A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism), Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant: Critique of Practical Reason, Kant: Critique of Judgment, Kant's Theory of Virtue (Selected Readings from The Metaphysics of Morals: Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Virtue and Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason), Kant's Political Philosophy (Selected Readings from The Metaphysics of Morals: Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right and Perpetual Peace), Virtue Theory (MacIntyre's After Virtue), Introduction to Phenomenology, Moral Sentimentalism: From Shaftesbury to Adam Smith, Hume's Ethical and Political Philosophy (Selected Readings from Treatise of Human Nature Books II & III, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Hume's Political Texts), Rawlsian Constructivism (The Development of Rawls' Constructivism from the 1950s and Contemporary Kantian Constructivism), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

  Major Academic Achievements and Awards:

  I. Monographs

  1.From the Absolute Self to the Absolute Other: The Problem of Intersubjectivity in the Philosophies of Husserl and Levinas(Shanghai People's Publishing House, March 2009).

  2.Being and Ethics: An Examination of Fundamental Issues in Heidegger's Practical Philosophy(People's Publishing House, November 2015).

  II. Translated Works

  Sun Xiaoling and Zheng Jianwen (trans.), Existentialismby David E. Cooper (Harvard Teaching Materials) (Fudan University Press, May 2012), translated under the direction of Sun Xiaoling.

  III. Key Papers

  •"Re-examining Kant's Transcendental Freedom from a Practical Perspective: Also on the Distinction Between Practice and Theory," Fudan Journal, No. 6, 2020.

  •"Hume's Critique of the Free Will Doctrine and Kant's Response," Journal of Social Science of Hunan Normal University, No. 2, 2020 (reprinted in Foreign Philosophy, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 7, 2020).

  •"Does the Doctrine of Right Belong to Kant's Metaphysics of Morals?—Also on Kant's Distinction Between Politics and Morality," Fudan Journal, No. 3, 2019 (reprinted in Ethics, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 9, 2019).

  •"Examining Rawls' 'Political Turn' from a Methodological Perspective—Also on Rawls' Constructivism," Modern Philosophy, No. 2, 2018 (reprinted in Foreign Philosophy, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 4, 2018).

  •"Bindingness, Reflection, and Freedom: The Approach of Kantian Ethics," Philosophical Trends, No. 10, 2017 (reprinted in Ethics, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 2, 2018).

  •"The Highest Good and the Moral World: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Concept of the Highest Good," World Philosophy, No. 5, 2016.

  •"The Paradox of Autonomy and Rawls' Contractarian Solution," Philosophical Research, No. 1, 2016 (reprinted in Foreign Philosophy, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 4, 2016).

  •"Justice and the Transcendence of Justice: On Rawls' Difference Principle," Morality and Civilization, No. 1, 2016.

  •"Sympathy and Moral Judgment: Hume's Ethics Through the Lens of Changes in the Concept of Sympathy," World Philosophy, No. 4, 2015.

  •"From Reason to Will: An Analysis of Heidegger's Ontological Interpretation of Kant's Concept of Freedom," Fudan Journal, No. 1, 2015.

  •"Sin and Freedom: Heidegger and Augustine," Christian Scholarship, Vol. 12, December 2014.

  •"Ethics of Mutual Respect and Self-Respect: Starting from Rawls' 'Mutual Disinterest'," Fudan Journal, No. 1, 2011 (reprinted in Ethics, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 4, 2012).

  •"Are Moral Sentiments Natural or Non-Natural?—Starting from Hume's Artificial Virtues," Philosophical Research, No. 6, 2010.

  •"Virtue Theory and Elitism—Starting from MacIntyre's Concept of 'Practice'," Fudan Journal, No. 1, 2009 (reprinted in Ethics, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 4, 2009).

  •"The Dimension of Intersubjectivity in Rawls' A Theory of Justice—Starting from Sandel's Critique," Philosophical Research, No. 5, 2008 (reprinted in Ethics, Renmin University Copying Materials, No. 9, 2008).

  •"Evil or the Decline of Morality: On Hegel's Critique of Kantian Morality," Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (The Humanities Issue), August 2007.

  •"Respect and Authentic Being: On Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant's Doctrine of Respect," Fudan Philosophical Review, No. 4, 2006.