Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc wins 2020 PAP Public Intellectual Prize

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Public Intellectual Prize by the Philosophical Association of the Philippines (PAP). The Board of Judges deemed that the opinion pieces of Dr. Maboloc "exemplify how philosophical thinking could be done in the public sphere." The PAP will confer the award on November 21, 2020 during its annual General Assembly via Zoom.

Dr. Maboloc has contributed 120 social and political commentaries to the Philippine Daily Inquirer from 2014 to 2019. He is an associate professor at the Ateneo de Davao University and a visiting professor for Global Justice at the American University of Sovereign Nations. Dr. Maboloc has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including a dozen plus indexed by Scopus.

The writings of the scholar deal with radical politics, disability rights, and the philosophy of technology. He has authored five books, including Philosophy of Human Existence, Introduction to Philosophy, and Ethics and Human Dignity. The maxima cum laude graduate of the University of San Carlos has delivered papers in more than 50 conferences here and abroad.

He has presented his research at Nagoya University, Chulalongkorn University, Perdana University, Kumamoto University, and the Universal Science Education Research Network Congress. He has also given more than 70 public talks to various schools in the country, including the University of Santo Tomas, Silliman University, and the University of the Philippines - Los Banos.

He has published papers in topnotch journals such as the Journal of Public Health, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, and the Journal of Human Values. He served as editor of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy. He is a peer-reviewer for 10 indexed international journals. He is the founding president of the Social Ethics Society.

Thomas Pogge to mentor AdDU prof in ASAP Global Justice Fellowship at Yale

Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge. ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale. Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at H

Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society released

ETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE SOCIETY. Edited by CRB Maboloc, PhD, Foreword by Darryl Macer, PhD, with an introduction by Daniel Mishori, PhD. WORD FROM GLOBAL SCHOLARS “This book is a timely contribution to practical ethics. It deals with challenging moral problems like environmental hazards and climate change, justice, democracy and violence, and relates these burning issues to the present state of the Filipino society. At the same time the book is firmly anchored in moral theory. It is written in a clear and accessible style and serves as an excellent educational resource.” Dr. Göran Collste Professor Emeritus of Applied Ethics Linköping University, Sweden “This is a highly original approach to teaching applied ethics. Focusing as it does on issues that are part of the lives of the students and written by local scholars, it cannot help but be engaging. I very much enjoyed reading it and am sure that the students will gain not just theoretical ethical knowledge

Doing Philosophy in the Philippines: My take

First, a distinction must be made between Filipino philosophy and Filipinos doing philosophy. It's not the case that to be a Filipino philosopher, one must be writing Filipino philosophy. A Filipino scholar can be considered a philosopher even if what he or she writes is about Kant or Hegel. What Filipino philosophy means is another matter. For now, I prefer that we simply do philosophy or that we philosophize. We must also distinguish philosophizing in terms of its formal character and in terms of what ordinary folks do. To me, the manner that I was raised by my father elicited so many questions in my mind and I believe that many among us who are into the business of thinking, also experience the same, e.g. whether you are loved, what's the meaning of life, or if there is really a god. Of course, there's nothing original about those questions. But the point is, I just want to emphasize, not all get to ask about those things because perhaps life for other people is comfor

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