Chen Bo

Chen Bo, born in 1957 in Changde, Hunan, holds a doctorate in philosophy from Renmin University of China and has long devoted himself to logic and analytic philosophy. He taught in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University from 1999 to 2021, and since 2021 has served as Chair Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Philosophy, Wuhan University. He was elected a member of the International Institute of Philosophy in 2018 and of the International Academy of the Philosophy of Science in 2021. His writing balances scholarship with readability; works such as Fifteen Lectures on Logic, Studies in Paradox and What Is Logic present the fundamental questions and methods of logical reasoning clearly to general readers. Other titles in the collection, including The Magic Cube of Thought: Paradoxes That Baffle Philosophers and Mathematicians, The Man in the Maze and The Woman Behind the Mask, range across paradox, foreign literature and popular science, reflecting his sustained interest in explaining abstract problems to a wider audience.