Tian Song
Professor, Fulbright Scholar
Director of the Center for Science and Civilization
Mr. Song Tian (田松) is a Professor in the Humanities Center, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology since Nov. 2019. He got a Ph.D. in history of science in 2002 and a Ph.D. in philosophy of Science in 2001. He is a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Professor of Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, the College of Philosophy and Sociology, Beijing Normal University for 15 years. He worked successively as a teacher of physics, newspaper editor, TV planner, and columnist before 1998 when he started his doctoral studies. He did his post-doctoral research in Peking University, and had been a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, Harvard University, and Cornell University.
His research areas include: philosophy of science (fundamental theory, philosophy of physics), history of science, sociology of science, anthropology of science, environmental philosophy, science communication, and science & art. He prefers to interdisciplinary case study, the cases varies from milk drinking and food industry to garbage. Prof. Song Tian is one of the earliest humanists who focus on garbage issues in China. His recent studies concern Civilization Studies, such as the Reexamination of Industrial Civilization and the Construction of Ecology Civilization.
The major works of Prof. Song Tian include: The Jumping Board of History of Science (科學史的起跳板, 2020),Daoxiangyuan Essay(稻香園隨筆, 20-16), Warning Science(警惕科學, 2014, 2017), Collapse by One Touch(一觸即崩, 2015), Academic demon and Fourth Concubine Effect: a Dialogue on Science Culture (學妖與四姨太效應：科學文化對話錄,2012, 2020), The Remains of the Spirits World: The Change of Naxi the Ancient Ethnic Group(神靈世界的余韻：納西，一個古老民族的變遷, 2008, 2018), and The Skepticism in the Age of Limited Earth: Will the Future World be Made of Garbage? （有限地球時代的懷疑論：未來的世界是垃圾作的，2007）. In addition, he published some translated books from English into Chinese, such as At Home in the Universe (by John Archibald Wheeler), in 2006 , Between Understanding and Trust: Science, Technology and Society (edited by Meinolf Dierkes) in 2006, and Magic Mirror: the Impossible World of M. C. Escher（by Ernest Brono）in 2002, 2014.
