Prof. Dr. GAN Shaoping, born in Changsha, Hunan, with his hometown in Nanchang, Jiangxi; Obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Munich in Germany, previously served as the Director of the Ethics Research Office at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Vice President of the Chinese Ethics Society.
Published monographs including Contemporary Construction of Ethics, Research on Frontier Issues in Applied Ethics, Ethics of Human Rights, Ethics of Liberty, The End of Traditional Rational Philosophy, Applied Ethics and Philosophical Culture, Die Philosophie der objektiven Vernunft —Theorie und Denkweise , and Chinesische Philosophie.
He has published more than 150 academic papers in journals such as Social Sciences in China, Social Sciences in China (English version), Philosophical Research, Philosophical Trends, World Philosophy, Morality and Civilization, Ethical Research, Journal of Peking University, Journal of Renmin University of China, Journal of Wuhan University, Academic Monthly and other journals. Received the Excellent Research Achievement Award from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Outstanding Work Award from the first Luo Guojie Ethics Education Fund.
Through a comparative and systematic in-depth explanation of the relationship between freedom and ethics, moral rights and moral obligations, and the original proposal of the procedural-consensus theory as an applied ethics argumentation model, his works have had a wide impact in the fields of theoretical ethics and applied ethics in China.
Starting from 2025, he will join the School of Philosophy of Guizhou University as a distinguished professor.