吾淳,亦名吾敬东,祖籍浙江衢州,1955年生于上海。现为上海师范大学哲学与跨文化研究所教授,主要从事中国思维与哲学发生和范型问题研究,兼涉中国古代科学、伦理、宗教以及艺术。发表学术论文百余篇,出版各类著作十余部,其中中国文化研究已形成系列,包括:《中国思维形态——发生与成型期的考察》(上海人民出版社,1998)、《古代中国科学范型——从文化、思维和哲学的角度考察》(中华书局,2002)、《中国社会的伦理生活——主要关于儒家伦理可能性问题的研究》(中华书局,2007)、《中国社会的宗教传统——巫术与伦理的对立和共存》(上海三联书店,2009)、《中国哲学的起源——前诸子时期观念、概念、思想发生发展与成型的历史》(上海人民出版社,2010)。
Wu Chun, alias Wu Jingdong, is a native of Quzhou, Zhejiang born in Shanghai in 1955. Now he is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Cross-culture,Shanghai Normal University, mainly studying the issue of the occurrence and paradigm ofChinese thought and philosophy and also engaging in the study of Chinese ancient science, ethics, religion and art. He has published more than 100 academic papers and more than ten works. His works on Chinese cultural studieshave become a series, including Chinese Thinking Pattern – A Survey of the Occurrence and Formation Period (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 1998), Paradigm of Ancient Chinese Science – Surveyed from the Perspective of Culture, Thought and Philosophy (Zhonghua Book Company, 2002), Ethical Life in the Chinese Society – A Study Focusing on the Issue of the Possibility of Confucian Ethics (Zhonghua Book Company, 2007),Religious Traditions in the Chinese Society – Opposition and Coexistence of Sorcery and Ethics (Shanghai SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2009) and The Origin of Chinese Philosophy –The History of the Occurrence, Development and Formation of Ideas, Concepts and Thoughts before the Period of the Hundred Schools of Thought (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2010).