刘大椿，男，中国人民大学哲学院教授，科技哲学教研室博士生导师。曾任中国人民大学校长助理，研究生院常务副院长,哲学系主任。现任中国人民大学一级教授，校学位评定委员会委员，学术委员会副主任，人文社会科学发展研究中心主任；中国科学技术哲学史专业委员会主任委员。著有《科学活动论》《新学苦旅：中国科学文化兴起的历程》《环境思想：基于中日传统与现实的回应》《在真与善之间：科技时代的伦理问题与道德抉择》、《科学哲学》《科学技术哲学导论》《从中心到边缘：科学、哲学、人文之反思》《人文社会科学研究成果评价体系研究》《思想的攻防—另类科学哲学的兴起和演化》《一般科学哲学史》《分殊科学哲学史》《审度：马克思科学技术观与当代科学技术论研究》《西学东渐》等，发表论文170余篇。著作多次获奖，2004年获教育部、人事部全国模范教师称号。主要研究领域：科学哲学、科学技术与社会、创新方法、科技思想史、人文社会科学评价等。

      Professor Liu Dachun is now the vice director of the Administration Committee, the vice director of the Academic Degree Evaluation Committee, and the vice director of the Scholarship Committee in the Renmin University. He is the deputy dean and chief expert of Marxism Research Institute, the director of Development Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences in the University. He is also the honorary vice president of the Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature, and the director of Committee of History of Dialectics of Nature.

       Professor Liu has published many works, including “The Theory of Science Activities”, “On Mutually Support Methodology”, “Environmental Ideology：Based on the Response to Tradition and Actuality of China and Japan”, “New Learning and Hard Trip: the Process of the Rise of Scientific Culture in China”, “Between the True and the Good: the Ethical Problem and Moral Choice in the Sci-tech Era”, “The Driving Force of Transformation: the Modern Scientific and Technological Revolution and Social Change”, “Philosophy of Science”, ”Introduction to Philosophy of Science and Technology”, “From the Centre to the Margin: the Reflection on Science, Philosophy and Humanities” and so on. He has published more than 140 papers in academic journals at home and abroad, as well as at important international conferences. Some of his works have won the Chinese National Book Prize and Humanities and Social Sciences Excellent Achievements Prize of National Ministry of Education many times.

       In recent years, he has successively hosted a number of state-level key subjects, such as “On the Evaluation System of Research Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences”, “Marxism Views on Science and Technology and Modern Views on Science and Technology”, “Research on the Work and their Innovation Method of Excellent Scientists”. Since 2002, Professor Liu has been a chief editor of Research Reports on the Development of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences which is annual report of the Renmin University.

       Professor Liu had been to the University of Bristol(British), Towson University(America) as a visiting professor, and he ever took part in some international academic conferences, such as the 18th World Congress of Philosophy(WCP), the Annual Meeting of International Union of History and Philosophy of Science(International Scientific Union), and ever present topic report in the international conference of Ethic of Science and Technology between China and German(2003). Moreover, Professor Liu has been to Russia, Japan, Korea, Australia, Hong Kong and Tai Wan for many times to take part in different academic activities.

       His specialties include: philosophy of sciences, science technology and society (STS), innovation methods, interdisciplinary subjects, and the evaluation of humanities and social sciences, etc.