Song Jijie was born in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is now an associate professor of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University.

His main research areas are ancient Greek philosophy and the history of western metaphysics. His current area of interest includes ‘Greek linguistics and Greek ontology’ and ‘Heidegger and Greek philosophy’.

He has edited the book Being and the Western Philosophical Tradition (Two volumes, Hebei University Press, Baoding, 2002). He is also the translator of After Virtue (The Central Compilation and Translation Press, Beijing, 2002), and Understanding American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2004). His published papers include “Heidegger on Aristotle on time”, “Philosophy as a destruction of the history of philosophy”, “The Techne of Logos?-Plato's critics of Greek art of language in ION”, “The question of Being: Heidegger, Kahn and the linguistic relativists”, “The cosmic model and the theory of idea in Plato's Timaeus”.