Sex Robots Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations

Ruiping FAN 
received his medical degree from Baotou College of Medicine in Inner Mongolia and PhD in philosophy from Rice University in Houston. He is currently a professor of philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Co-Editor of the
International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine
(Hong Kong), Associate Editor of
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy
(USA) and
Chinese Medical Ethics
(mainland China). His research focuses on bioethics as well as Confucianism and comparative philosophy. He has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters (over 90 in English and 80 in Chinese). Among his two monographs and ten edited/co-edited volumes is
Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West
via Springer in 2010.

Mark J. Cherry
is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Houston and his doctorate degree in philosophy from Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research compasses ethics and bioethics, together with social and political philosophy. He is author of
Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
(Georgetown University Press, 2005; 2015) and
Sex, Family, and the Culture Wars
(Routledge, 2016). He is Editor of
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
(Oxford University Press), Senior Editor of
Christian Bioethics
(Oxford University Press), and Editor-in-Chief of
HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum
(Springer); he is Co-editor of the book series
The Annals of Bioethics
(Routledge) and Editor of the book series
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
(Springer)