Department of Public Policy - City University of Hong Kong

Department of Public Policy
公共政策學系

Faculty / Academic and Teaching

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CHEUNG, Arthur Kam-chuen

Professor FAN, Ruiping
范瑞平

BM Baotou, MA CASS, PhD Rice

Professor

Ruiping Fan focuses on philosophical, ethical and bioethical teaching and research. He also serves as Co-Editor of the International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine (Hong Kong), Associate Editor for both the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (USA) and the Chinese Medical Ethics (mainland China), and on the Editorial Board of the Philosophy and Medicine book series (via Springer). In addition to over 170 journal articles and book chapters (over 90 in English and over 80 in Chinese) published, he has also authored Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West (in English, 2010) and Contemporary Confucian Bioethics (in Chinese, 2011). He was the editor or co-editor of Confucian Bioethics (in English, 1999), Confucian Society and the Revival of Dao (in Chinese, 2008), the Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China (in English, 2011), Confucian Constitution and China’s Future (in Chinese, 2012), Ritual and the Moral Life (in English, 2012), Confucian Constitutional Order (in English, 2013), Family-oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives (in English, 2015), and Building Chinese Bioethics: New Explorations (in Chinese, 2017), Combating the Coronavirus Pandemic: Building Chinese Bioethics (in Chinese, 2020), and Sex Robots: Their Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations (in English, 2021).

Office: YEUNG-B7517
Phone: +852 3442 7488
Fax: +852 3442 0413
Email: safan@cityu.edu.hk

Bioethics

Ethics

Social and Political Philosophy

Ethics and Health Care Policy

Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy

Values and Choices

Confucian and Comparative Philosophy

On-going research projects:

Co-Principal Investigator, “Whole Body Transplants / Head Transplants: An International Interdisciplinary Research Project,” funded by The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Wake Forest University and United International College, US$40,000, 2017-2020.

Principle Investigator, “Proper Incentives for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Local and International Study on the Divergent Models” (GRF Project No: 11607518; HK$934,988), Sep 2018- Aug 2021.

Recent Publications:

“Taking the Role of the Family Seriously in Treating Chinese Psychiatric Patients: A Confucian Familist Review on China’s first Mental Health Act,” with Mingxu Wang, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 40.5 (October 2015): 387-399.

“Nonegalitarian Social Responsibility for Health: A Confucian Perspective on Article 14 of the UNESCO Declaration in Bioethics and Human Rights,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 26.2 (2016): 105-218.

“Is Confucian Harmony Foundationless? A Critical Question for Chenyang Li,” Philosophy East & West 67.1 (2017): 246-256.

“Developing Confucian Virtue-based Rights: A Response to Jonathan Chan’s Confucian Critique of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights,” with Wenqing Zhao, in Joseph Tham, Kai Man Kwan and Alberto Garcia (eds.), Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights, Springer, Dordrecht, 2017, pp. 115-118.

“Opt-in or Opt-out: That Is Not the Question,” with HM Chan, Hong Kong Medical Journal 23.6 (December 2017): 658-660.

“Principlism, Pragmatism, or Reconstructionist Confucianism? – Some Comments on Ni Peimin’s English Translation of the Analects,” Frontiers of Philosophy in China 13.2 (2018): 207-216. https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0016-4