英国肯特大学荣休教授，北京大学马克思主义学院客座教授，北京大学习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院学术与战略发展委员会国际委员。《激进哲学》和《马克思与哲学社会》的创始人之一，《马克思与哲学评论》的创始人兼主编。研究领域涉及社会哲学、伦理学、知识理论、形而上学和逻辑学等。

      Professor Sean Sayers has written extensively on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian Marxist perspective. He has worked in the areas of social philosophy, ethics, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and logic, has also written on Freud and psychoanalysis. His work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish. He has held visiting appointments in Colorado, Massachusetts, Sydney, Istanbul, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Beijing and is a Visiting Professor at Peking University (since 2016) and at Canterbury Christ Church University (since 2016). 

肖恩·塞耶斯：我认为这是当下非常重要的一个话题，同时也符合本次大会的主题，即“马克思主义与现代化”。此外，这一话题也与当今环境问题的重要性非常契合。有很多人对工业发展、经济发展是一件好事这一观点持怀疑态度，而这是马克思主义一个非常基本的内容。我试图回答其中的一部分质疑和疑问，并展示马克思主义作为一种经济哲学是如何发挥作用的以及它能够为我们带来什么好处。

Sean Sayers: Well, I think it's a very important topic at the present time, and it also fits in with the theme of the Congress, which is “Marxism and Modernization”, as I recall. The importance of the topic, especially with the importance of environmental issues now, there's been quite a lot of skepticism and doubt about the idea that industrial development, economic development is a good thing, and that's a very fundamental part of Marxism. I'm trying to answer some of those doubts and problems and show how Marxism is a philosophy of economic and the benefits of that.

肖恩·塞耶斯：我认为本次大会意义重大。我非常期待。本次大会由北京大学发起，让来自全球各地的马克思学者汇聚一堂，这是鼓励马克思主义思想进行交流碰撞的重要方式。所以，我很乐意参加本次大会。唯一的遗憾就是无法亲临现场，我觉得亲身参与的感受会大不相同。但不管怎么说，视频连线是退而求其次的最佳选择。

Sean Sayers: I think it's very significant. I'm very much welcome it. And I think this initiative that Peking University is taking to bring Marx’s scholars from all over the world together, is a very important way of encouraging Marxist thought and Marxist ideas. So, I strongly welcome it. And my only regret is that I can't be there in person to participate, because it makes a great deal of difference, I think, in a conference to be there in person. But anyway, this is second best.