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Professor Jianhui Li is a second-level professor and doctoral advisor in the School of Philosophy at Beijing Normal University, specializing in philosophy of science. He serves as Vice Director of the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science there and has held positions as Vice Dean of the School of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Graduate School's Training Department. Since December 2016, he has been Academic Registrar at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (BNBU), currently also serving as Provost and Director of Research Development and Knowledge Transfer. Li earned his PhD in Philosophy from Peking University in 2002, MA in Philosophy from Beijing Normal University (1987-1990), and BA in Philosophy from Jilin University (1983-1987). He is a distinguished professor at the Life Culture Research Institute of Guangdong Medical University, Chair of the Biological Philosophy Committee of the Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature, and Vice President of the Beijing Society for the History of Science and Sociology of Science. Li has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California Berkeley, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Utrecht University.

His research interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, ethics of technology, philosophy of cognition and mind, bioethics, and the history of scientific thought in Chinese and Western traditions. Li has authored numerous books, such as Transcranial Theory of Cognition: A New Philosophy of Mind (China Social Science Press, 2018), Formalization of Mind and Its Challenges: Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2017), Companion with Goodness: Ethical Problems of Contemporary Sciences (2013), Philosophy of Life Science (Beijing Normal University Press, 2006), and Digital Genesis: The New Science of Artificial Life (Science Press, 2006). Key publications also feature "Birth with dignity from the Confucian perspective" in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2018), "Death with dignity from the Confucian perspective" (2016), and "The Craziness for Extra-Sensory Perception: Qigong Fever and the Science–Pseudoscience Debate in China" in Zygon (2015). His achievements have earned the Ministry of Education's Award for Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences and the Beijing Award for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences.