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Xiaosheng CHEN

Professor

Contact information

E-mail:chxs@nju.edu.cn

Department of Politics

Areas of expertise

Political Philosophy; History of Modern Western Political Thought

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy                                                                                                   2013

Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, China

M.A. Political Science                                                                                           2009

School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

B.A. Political Science                                                                                            2007

School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China


Research/work Experiences

Professor of Political Philosophy                                                   present

School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Current Focus:

-Liberal public justification;

-Rawls’ political philosophy;

-Human rights and global justice;

-Hobbes and Lockes natural law theory and political thought


Selected Publications

Xiaosheng Chen. (2018). The Politics of Justification: A Study on John Rawls’ Thought of Public Justification. SDX& Harvard-Yenching Academic Library.

Xiaosheng Chen & Ankui Tan. (2011). translator. Public Reason (collected papers). Zhejiang University Press.

Xiaosheng Chen. (2013). chief translator. John Rawls, Collected Papers (Chinese edition). Jilin Publishing Group.

Xiaosheng Chen. (2013). translator. John Rawls, Law of Peoples (Chinese edition). Jilin Publishing Group.


Selected Awards