Jiyuan Yu

Who is Jiyuan Yu?

Jiyuan Yu is a moral philosopher noted for his work on virtue ethics. Yu has been a Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York since 1997. Prior to his professorship, Yu completed a three year post as a research fellow at the University of Oxford, England. 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 include Ancient Greek Philosophy, and Ancient Chinese Philosophy.

He serves on the Editorial Boards of History of Philosophy Quarterly, World Philosophy, Frontiers in Philosophy, the Chinese translation of the Complete Works of Aristotle, and the book series on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy. He received the University's Exceptional Scholar Award, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences' Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002. He was appointed a 2003-4 Fellow at the National Humanities Center and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow in Spring of 2008.