Zhang Zhiwei

Zhang Zhiwei, born in Beijing in 1956, holds a doctorate in philosophy and is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, as well as president of the Chinese Society for the History of Foreign Philosophy. He has long engaged in the study of Western philosophy, with particular emphasis on Kant and German philosophy. He is the author of Kant's Moral Worldview and Fifteen Lectures on Western Philosophy, and chief editor of A History of Western Philosophy. Seven of his works are included in the collection. Beyond Western philosophy, they also cover medicine, computing and data recovery, highway traffic, internet operations, corporate financing and the metaverse, showing that his writing combines academic popularization with practical application. Overall, his prose is clear and fluent, using a lecture-style structure to guide readers into each subject, and he has had a broad influence in general-interest writing.