Professor
lishi@ruc.edu.cnDr. Li Shi, born in Guitang, China, in 1979, is currently serving as a Professor of Political Theory in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China.
January 2008~September 2009 Post Doctoral Researcher in the Philosophy Department of Peking University, Institute of Foreign Philosophy
April 2004~July 2007 Luiss Guido Carli University (Roma, Italy), PhD Degree in Political Philosophy
September 2001~April 2004 Dept. of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Graduate, Master Degree in Ethics
September 1997~July 2001 Dept. of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Undergraduate, Bachelor Degree in Chemistry
September 2016~August 2017 Cambridge University, Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, Visiting Scholar
October 2005~January 2006 CAPPE, Australian National University, visiting scholar
1) Paradoxes of Positive Liberty, Commercial Press, 2010.
2) Liberty: Limits between Public Sphere and Private Life, Guangdong Education Press, 2012.
3) The Spectrum of Modern Theories of Equality, China Social Sciences Press, 2018.
4) Ten Lectures of Political Philosophy, 2019.
5) Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Press of Renmin University of China, 2022.
1) “On Socrates’ Proposition: Virtue Is Knowledge, Objections and Defenses,” Morality And Civilization, 2003(1).
2) “Luxury in Consumer Society,” Journal Of Gui Zhou Normal University, 2003(11).
3) “Freedom: One Concept or Two Concepts?” Philosophy Research, 2008(7).
4) “Positive Freedom and Negative Freedom,” Journal of Yunnan University, 2008(11).
5) “Practical Reason and Autonomous Actions,” World Philosophy, 2009(1).
6) “The Fate of Reason: Summary of the International Conference on Enlightenment Thought,” Philosophy Research, 2009(2).
7) “Does the Right to Private Property Restrict Individual Freedom?” Journal of the Party School of the Central Committee of the C.T.C, 2009(6).
8) “What is Collective Freedom?” Philosophical Trends, 2010(10).
9) “Freedom of the Will and Freedom of Action: an Analysis Based on the Hierarchical Structure of Human Desires,” World Philosophy, 2010(1).
10) “On the Translation of the Word ‘People’ in Rawls' The Law of Peoples,” Foreign Theoretical Trends, 2010(11).
11) “On Rousseau’s Theory of Freedom: Critiques and Defenses,” History of Political Thought, 2011(8).
12) “Sunshine through the Instruments,” Contemporary China (in Taiwan), 2011(10).
13) “Can We Measure Freedom?” Philosophical Trends, 2012(3).
14) “On Rawls' Theory of Tolerance,” 21st Century, 2012(4).
15) “Thomas Hobbes on Representation,” Philosophical Trends, 2013(11).
16) “Were People Equal in the State of Nature?” History of Political Thought, 2013(12).
17) “On Rawls' Conception of Desert,” Philosophical Trends, 2014(12).
18) “On Different Meanings of ‘Equality’ in Chinese and in English,” Chinese Social Science Today, Jan, 9th, 2015.
19) “MOOCs and Equal Opportunity,” Chinese Social Science Today, April, 24th, 2015.
20) “Solutions of Free Riders,” Chinese Social Science Today, June, 26th, 2015.
21) “On Rawls' Difference Principle,” Morality and Civilization, 2015(4).
22) “Difficulties in Justifying the Proposition that Everyone was Born Equal,” Zhe Xue Men, 2015(1).
23) “Equality and Jealousy: Between Rawls and Nozick,” Studies in Ethics, 2015(8).
24) “Robert Nozick’s Criticism of Karl Marx’s Theory of Exploitation,” Marxism and Reality, 2015(12).
25) “What Kind of Social Cooperation, between John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Karl Marx?” Philosophy Research, 2016(2).
26) “Distributive Justice in Different Territories,” Chinese Social Science Today, March, 23ird, 2016.
27) “What is So Called the Arrogance of Officials,” Reading, 2016(6).
28) “On the Difference between Huang Zongxi's People-oriented Thought and Western Theory of Democracy,” Qi Lu Journal, 2016(6).
29) “Justice and Benevolence,” Journal of Yunan University, 2016(7).
30) "Treat Everyone as an End: Interpretations and Criticisms,” Ethics Research, 2016(7) , reprinted by Chinese Social Sciences Abstract, 2016(9).
31) “On the Limitation of Property Rights,” Journal of Pecking University, 2016(5).
32) “On the Spectrum of Egalitarianism Theories,” Philosophical Trends, 2016(10), reprinted by Shanghai Social Sciences Abstract, 2016(11).
33) “Is Sharing a Virtue of Network Era?” Chinese Social Science Today, August, 16th, 2016.
34) “The Distributive Principle of Need: from Idea to Reality,” Marxism and Reality, 2016(6).
35) “Diversity of Philosophical Habits: Woman in Philosophy in Cambridge University,” Chinese Social Science Today, Dec. 6th, 2016.
36) “Difference Principle and Prioritarianism: Between John Rawls and Derek Parfit,” Morality of Civilization, forthcoming, 2017(2).
37) “Politics Based on Trust: an Interview with Professor Dunn of Cambridge University,” History of Political Thought, 2017(6).
38) “ On Nozick's Confusion between ‘Freedom’ and ‘Voluntariness’,” Philosophical Trends, 2017(8).
39) “Experience Machine and Virtual Reality,” China Social Science Today, April 25, 2017.
40) “Political philosophy of "Sharing Economy,” China Social Science Today, May 17, 2017 (reprinted by the theoretical edition of Beijing Daily).
41) “Leisure and Civic Education,” China Social Science Today, November 23, 2017.
42) “Research on Expanding and Deepening Social Distribution,” China Social Science Today, December 12, 2017.
43) “The Difference between Concepts and Conceptions: a Review of Correct Nonsense,” China Social Science Today, April 10, 2018.
44) “Sense of Justice and the Stability of Political System,” Philosophical Trends, 2018(3). (Reprinted in Information Center for Social Science of RUC).
45) “Multiple Values and Rational Choice,” Ethics Research, 2018(8) (reprinted by Chinese Social Science Abstracts).
46) “On the Moral Obligation of Emergency Rescue,” Morality and Civilization, 2018(9).
47) “The Value and Limitation of Procedural Justice,” Modern Foreign Philosophy, December 2018, Vol. 14. “Clarifying the Similarities and Differences between Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought,” China Social Science Today, December 4, 2018.
48) “Justice from Personal Choice: an interview with Hill Steiner, a Representative of Left Libertarian,” Foreign Theoretical Trends, 2018(12) (Reprinted in Information Center for Social Science of RUC).
49) “An Analysis on Gun Ban in Political philosophy Approach,” Reading, 2019(1).
50) “Free Market and Procedural Justice,” World Philosophy, 2019(3).
51) “Deserve Principle and Social Justice,” Journal of Peking University, 2019(2).
52) “On Ethical Limitations of Gene Editing,” Ethics Research, 2019(2).
53) “On New Positive Freedom,” Exploration and Contention, 2019(4).
54) “Overtreatment and Social Justice,” Chinese Social Sciences (internal manuscript), 2019(2).
55) “Book Review: Market, Country and Community by David Miller,” China Social Sciences Today, July 10, 2019.
56) “Need Principle of Social Distribution,” Foreign Theoretical Trends, 2019(8).
57) “Philosophical Reflection on Intellectual Property Rights,” Philosophy Research, 2019(8). (Reprinted by Social Science Abstracts, issue 10, 2019).
58) "An Analysis on Queuing in a Political Philosophy Approach,” China Social Sciences Today, February 26, 2020.
59) "Professional morality and Social Justive,” Journal of Guizhou University, December, 2020.
60) “Hypothetical Insurance and the Scope of Medical Insurance,” Social Security in China, February, 2021.
61) “philanthropy, Tax and Comerce,” Chinese Politics, 2020(4)
62) “Egalitarianism and Contemporary World,” World Politics Study, 2021(1).
63) “Plural distributive justice,” Journal of Renmin University of China, 2021(2).
64) “Paradox of the Rule of Law,” Reading, 2021(10).
65) “The Shaping of the State by Three Western Theories of Freedom,” South China Quarterly, 2022(1). (reprinted in Reprinted in Information Center for Social Science of RUC)
66) “Knowledge Pedigree of Distributive Justice,” Journal of Renmin University of China, 2022(2).
67) “Ownership theory of Libertarianism: Analysis and Criticism,” Marxism and Reality, 2022(3).
68) “From Shared Digital Labor to Shared Digital Welfare,” Journal of Shenzhen University, 2022(3).
69) “On the Fairness of Minimum Wage Policies,” China Soft Science, 2022(3).
70) “Three Paths to Deal with Handicaps in Contemporary Political Philosophy,” Research of Ethics, 2022(3).
71) “Common Prosperity and Just Tax: On Adam Smith and Rawls Tax theory,” Zhong Zhou Journal, 2022(4).
72) “‘Checks and Balance’ or ‘Enemies and Friends’: Two Concepts of Politics,” Reading, 2022(7).
73) “Is Universal Basic Income a Realistic Road to Communism,” Frontiers of Foreign Social Sciences, 2022(6).
74) “Fair Exchange and Pricing Policies,” Research on Contemporary Chinese values, 2022(3).
Note: Two of the above articles (2008 and 2016) are published in Philosophy Research, which is generally considered the most authoritative journal of philosophy published in China.
1. Doctoral Thesis: Paradoxes of Positive Freedom
2. "Evaluations and Autonomous Action", PERCIPI, First Issue, August, 2007. (An online graduate philosophical journal, Department of Philosophy, Central European University.) http://www.personal.ceu.hu/percipi/content.html
3. “Struggling for Equal Opportunity: An Analysis of National College Entrance Exam in China” , Proceedings of the World Philosophy Congress, 2018
4. “How to Be Free by Keeping Promising,” Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on relationship, culture and art (icrca, 2019), Clausius scientific Inc., 2019.pp. 153-162.
1. March 2008, Research Project on “Paradoxes of Positive Freedom” granted Second Grade Financial Support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
2. September 2009, Research Project on “What is Collective Freedom?” granted Special Grade Financial Support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
3. November 2009, Research Project on “Political Studies on the Concept of Freedom” granted Research Starting Financial Support from China Scholarship Council
4. December 2009, Research Project on “The Republican Concept of Freedom” granted Financial Support for Newly Arriving Teachers from Renmin University
5. March 2015, Research project on “Equality and Revolution” granted financial support from Renmin University
6. January 2016, Research project on “Contemporary Research on Equality” granted financial support from Renmin University
7. February 2016, As a member of joined research program of “Liberalism in China” between Utrecht University and Beijing Normal University.
8. September 2016, Project on “The Spectrum of Modern Theories of Equality” granted National Social Science Fund “Later Stage Funding” (completed)
9. March 2017, Project on “Shared Development: Research on Distributive Justice" granted “General Funding” of Renmin University of China (completed)
10.October 2020, Project on “Plural Distributive Justice” granted National Social Science Fund “Later Stage Funding” (20FZXB053)
11.March, 2022, "Distributive Justice is the Institutional Basis for Common Prosperity" granted “Major Project Funding” of Renmin University of China
1. August 2018, the 24th World Conference on philosophy delivered a keynote speech.
2. “On Rousseau’s Theory of Freedom,” Third Forum of Political Study by Chinese Young Scholars, November 2008.
3. “An Analysis of Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’,” Fourth Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, October 2006.
4. June 2006, Orvieto: Summer School in Political Philosophy, co-organized by LUISS University in Italy and Tufts University in the United States
5. May 2005, Vigo: Participation in the international conference on “Global Justice: as Cosmopolitan Institutions” co-organized by University of Minho and University of Vigo
6. April 2005, Tours: Participation in the role game on “Just Rules for Incentivizing Pharmaceutical Research and for Disseminating its Benefits” organized by “European Network on Applied Global Justice”
7. October 2004: invited by UNESCO to participate in the celebration of “International Poverty Eradication Day”
Chinese: Native language
English: Proficient in reading, writing, and speaking
Italian: Comprehension and speaking abilities
1. For undergraduates: Political Theory of Liberalism, Western Political Thought, Rawl’s A Theory of Justice, Introduction of Political Philosophy
2. For graduates: History of Liberalism, Contemporary Political Philosophy (in English), Distributive Justice
1. October, 2021: graduate course of "Theoretical Research on Distributive Justice" won postgraduate demonstration course of Renmin University of China
2. Autumn Semester 2019-2020, Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award of Renmin University of China.
3. December 2019, The Spectrum of Modern Theories of Equality, won Excellent Scientific Research Prize of Renmin University of China
4. December 2019, the "Outstanding Member" of the China Democratic League
5. November 2018, “On the Moral Obligation of Emergency Rescue” won the "Excellent Paper Award" of China ethics conference in 2018
6. March 2018, "Dialectics in Politics" participated in the construction of core courses in Renmin University of China
7. July 2015, won the title of "advanced worker" of the Democratic League of China
8. December 2009: excellent postdoctor of Peking University
9. December 2009: Excellent Post Doctoral Researcher, Peking University
10.February 2005~January 2006: Vice president of Chinese Scholars and Students Association in Rome.
11.July 2004: Huo Ji Guang Scholarship for Excellent Graduate of the Humanities in Tsinghua University
12.September 2002: Guang Hua Scholarship for Excellent Student in Tsinghua University
13.June 2001: Best Female Leader Prize in the Contest of Association Leaders of Tsinghua University
14.April 2001: Second Prize in the HuaLing Poetry Contest of Chinese Universities
15.June 1999: Silver Medal (women’s 50m freestyle), Bronze Medal (women’s 4x100 medley) in the Swimming Contest of Universities in Beijing