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Research Areas: scientific methodology; philosophy of system science; metaphysic problems of science; STS

Jinyang Liu is a Professor of Philosophy at RUC. He works on the philosophy of science, with interests in scientific methodology, philosophy of complexity and system science, and metaphysical problems of science. He has published several monographs and many academic articles, including: A Formal Analysis of Contemporary Holism (2018); Complexity: A Philosophical View (2008); “On Holism-Reductionism Debate” "How to Deal with the Whole: Two Kinds of Holism in Methodology" "From Being to Becoming: A Metaphysical Analysis of Paradigm Shifts in Science", etc. He has presented papers at international conferences and served as a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh during 2012-2013. He teaches several courses, including "Science, Technology, and Society (STS)" "Philosophy of Nature" and "Systems Methods and Systems Thinking". He is a director member of the Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature (CSDN) and the chairman of the Committee of History of Philosophy of Science & Technology. He has received the "RUC Teaching Excellence Award." Recently, he has been presiding over a national key project focusing on the Philosophical Methodology of Complex Systems, supported by the Major Research Plan of the National Social Science Foundation of China.

Email: liu-jinyang@sohu.com