Qiannan Li

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Assistant Professor

2297 Social Science and Humanities

My research focuses on normative ethics, philosophy of well-being, moral psychology and comparative study between early Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy.

Education and Degree(s)
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Normative Ethics
  • Chinese Philosophy
  • Value Theory
  • Social and Political Philosophy
Publications
  • Li, Q. From Emotion Regulation to the Cultivation of Existential Feelings: A Zhuangzi-Inspired Perspective on Flourishing as an Affective Being. Asian Philosophy (forthcoming).
  • Li, Q. A Zhuangist Analysis of Transformative Agency and Adaptive Preference. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (2025).
  • Li, Q., with Valerie Tiberius. Adaptive Values and Subjective Ill-Being. In Ill-Being: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press (2025).
  • Li, Q. Clueless Loneliness: Loneliness Beyond Frustrated Pro-Attitudes. The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2024).
  • Li, Q. A Kantian Account of Political Hopes as Fundamental Hopes. Kantian Review (2023).
  • Li, Q. ‘Having Respect for’ and ‘Being Respectful’: A Comparison Between the Kantian and Confucian Conceptions of Respect. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (2023).
  • Li, Q. Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life, by Karen Stohr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 31(1): 94–98 (2023).
  • Tiberius, V., and Li, Q. Happiness. In International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell.