Prof. Itay Shani has recently joined the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai). After having received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 2004, Prof. Shani worked as a teaching associate at Western Ontario, as well as at the University of Haifa in Israel before taking up post-doctoral positions at Wits University and the University of Johannesburg in South-Africa. Prior to joining SYSU he held the position of a research professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South-Korea since 2010.