Personal profile

Teng Fei is currently a lecturer in the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China. Her research interests include environmental philosophy, ethics of science and technology and Confucianism. She obtained her PhD from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She was a visiting scholar of Université Catholique de Louvain (2013).

Research Projects:

2021-present, "Climate Justice from the Perspective of Ecological Civilization", funded by The National Social Science Fund of China.

2021-2024, “Climate Ethics and Moral Responsibility in the Age of Anthropocene”, funded by Scientific Research Foundation, Renmin University of China.

2018-2020, “A Study of Moral Responsibility in the Age of Anthropocene”, funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

Recent English Publications:

Fei Teng,” Climate Change and Moral Responsibilities to Future Generations—A Confucian Perspective”, Philosophy East & West , 2021, 71(2). (AHCI).

Fei Teng, “Joining the Transformation of Nature—The Post-Natural and Confucian Perspective on Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene” Frontiers of Philosophy in China , 2020,15(1):53-72 (CSSCI)

Fei Teng, “Confucianism on Climate Justice”, in. Julia Tao, Yu kam por(eds), Dao Companion to Confucian Applied Ethics, Springer Nature, forcoming.

Fei Teng,” Environment as a “community of life”: The ontological foundations of environmental protection in China”, in Rockwell F. Clancy, Qin Zhu and Xiaofeng Tang (eds), China, Engineering, and Ethics: A Sketch of The Landscape , Springer Nature, forcoming.

Gerhard Bos, Fei Teng, “Duties of Humanity – Human dignity-enabling interests as a cross-cultural basis of long-term responsibility”, Gerhard Bos and Marcus Duwell (eds), Comparative approaches to human dignity: China and West , Cambridge University Press, forcoming.

Fei Teng, “Confucian Personhood and Scientific Spirit—Virtue as the foundation of Confucian ethics of technology”, in Pak-hang Wong and Tom Wong (eds), Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology , 2021.

Teaching

• Philosophy of Science and Technology (for undergraduate students)

• Introduction to Dialectics of Nature (for master’s students)

• Science, Technology and Society (STS) (for master’s students)

• Methodology of Scientific Studies (for PhD students)