沉痛悼念余纪元教授

国际知名的古希腊哲学专家和伦理学家，美国纽约州立大学布法罗分校哲学系教授。

Jiyuan Yu (1964-November 3, 2016) was a moral philosopher noted for his work on virtue ethics. Yu was a long-time and highly admired Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York, starting in 1997. Prior to his professorship, Yu completed a three-year post as a research fellow at the University of Oxford, England (1994-1997). He received his education in China at both Shandong University and Renmin University, in Italy at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and in Canada at the University of Guelph. His primary areas of research and teaching included Ancient Greek Philosophy (esp. Plato, Aristotle), and Ancient Chinese Philosophy (esp. Classical Confucianism).

He served on the Editorial Boards of History of Philosophy Quarterly (2002-2005), World Philosophy (2000-present), Frontiers in Philosophy (2006–present), the Chinese translation of the Complete Works of Aristotle (1988-1998), and the book series onChinese and Comparative Philosophy (New York: Global Publications). He received the University's Exceptional Scholar (Young Investigator) Award, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences' Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002. He was appointed a 2003–04 Fellow at the National Humanities Center and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow in the spring of 2008.

Bibliography

• The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003

• Rationality and Happiness: from the Ancients to the Early Medievals (co-editor with Jorge Gracia), University of Rochester Press, 2003

• Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretation of Greek Philosophy (co-editor with Jorge Gracia), Ashgate, 2004

• A Dictionary of Western Philosophy: English and Chinese (co-compiler with Nick Bunnin), People's Press, 2001, pp. 1191

• The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004 ISBN 1-4051-0679-4

• "Ethics in Greek Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy", in special issue of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, September 2002, Blackwell

• "Two Conceptions of Hylomorphism in Metaphysics ZH", in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (XV, 1997, 119-145)

• "Virtue: Aristotle and Confucius", in Philosophy East and West (Vol.48, no.2,1998, 323-347)

• "The Language of Being: Between Aristotle and Chinese Philosophy", in International Philosophical Quarterly (Vol.39, no.4, 1999, 439-454)

• "Justice in the Republic: An Evolving Paradox", in History of Philosophy Quarterly (Vol.17, No.2, 2000, 121-141)

• "Saving the Phenomena: An Aristotelian Method in Comparative Philosophy" (With N.Bunnin), in Two Roads to Wisdom?: Chinese and Analytical Philosophical Traditions, Mou (ed.), Open Court, 2001, 293-312

• "Xiong Shili's Metaphysics of Virtue", in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, eds, C-Y Cheng and N.Bunnin, Blackwell Publishers (2002, 127-146).

• "Aristotle on Eudaimonia: After Plato's Republic", in History of Philosophy Quarterly (Vol.18, No. 2, 2001, 115-138)

• "The Moral Self and the Perfect Self in Aristotle and Mencius", in Journal of Chinese Philosophy (Vol.28, no.3, 2001, 235-256)

• "The Identity of Form and Essence in Aristotle", in Southern Journal of Philosophy (Vol. XXXIX, 2001, 299-312)

• "What is the Focal Meaning of Being in Aristotle?", in Aperion: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science (Vol. XXXIV, no.3, 2001, 205-231)

• "Introduction: Towards a Greek-Chinese Comparative Ethics", in Ethics in Greek Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, special issue of JCP, September 2002.

• "Aristotelian Mean and Confucian Mean", in Ethics in Greek Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, special issue of JCP, September 2002.

• "Rationality and Happiness" (with Gracia), in Rationality and Happiness: from the Ancients to the Early Medievals, 1-15

• "Will Aristotle Count Socrates Happy?", in Rationality and Happiness: from the Ancients to the Early Medievals, 51-73

• "MacIntyre's Interpretation of Aristotle", in Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretation of Greek Philosophy

　　余纪元 (Jiyuan Yu)，浙江 诸暨市浣东街道高湖沿人，1979年从诸暨高湖中学毕业考入山东大学。 1983年毕业于山东大学哲学系获哲学学士学位。1983年至1986年就读于中国人民人学，获哲学硕士学位；1986年至1989年任教于中国人民大学哲学系；后留学意、加、英等国，先后获加拿大格尔夫大学哲学博士学位、英国 牛津大学现代中国研究所哲学博士学位。 美国 纽约州立大学布法罗分校哲学系教授，国际知名的古希腊哲学专家和伦理学家，学术研究涉及古希腊哲学、中西比较哲学和伦理学。
　　2011.12当选国际中国哲学学会新任主席，从2012年开始至2013年，任期两年。 
　　曾任英国牛津大学Wolfson学院及中国研究所研究员（1994-1997），美国国家人文 学科学中心研究员（2003-2004）。曾获布法罗纽约州立大学教育优秀奖、杰出学者奖。现任美国哲学学会顾问委员会委员、国际中国哲学学会（ISCP）副主席、美国《哲学史季刊》编委、美国《中国哲学杂志》编委、中英美暑期哲学学院美方委员会委员。 研究领域包括：古希腊哲学、德性伦理学、中国—希腊哲学比较、儒学。 
　　现任教于美同 纽约州立大学布法罗分校哲学系，研究与教学主要集中在古希腊哲学、古希腊古代中国比较哲学等领域，在纽约州立大学布法罗分校，为这两个领域的硕士研究生开设课程，并指导博士生，曾分别担任《世界哲学》编委，《亚里士多德全集》、《中国与比较哲学》系列丛书(纽约: 环球出版)中文翻译等；同时，担任中国哲学期刊客座主编、美国哲学委员会（中英美）成员。 
　　余纪元教授2002年获颁美国大学杰出学者(青年研究者)奖以及优秀教学奖，2003-2004获布法罗纽约州立大学教育优秀奖、杰出学者奖。同时在美国国家人文中心任研究员，担任中国人民大学的吴玉章讲座教授。 
　　近著有 <<中英对照西方哲学辞典>> (人民出版社， 2001)， 《The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics》（2003），<< Rationality and Happiness from the Ancients to the Early Medievals>> (co-ed. 2003)，《The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy》(co-author,2005)，《Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretations of Greek Philosophy》(co-ed,2005)， <<哲学>> (合作主编， 中国人民大学出版社，2008年)，《The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle:Mirrors of Virtue》(2007，中译本《德性之镜-孔子与 亚里士多德的伦理学》，余纪元著，林航译，中国人民大学出版社，2009年。)， 《<理想国>讲演录》 (中国人民大学出版社，2009年)。