Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (Ateneo), Dr. Bernard Caslib Jr (UP Manila), Dr. Rogelio Bayod (North Valley), Fr. Dexter Veloso, PhD (Holy Cross of Davao), and Kristine Cruz Alcazar (USJR), all members of the Social Ethics Society, delivered their respective papers at the 23rd Asian Bioethics Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. The event was held from March 25-29, 2025 with the theme Social, Legal and Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence. The conference was organized by Dr. Darryl Macer (AUSN) and Dr. Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn) and supported by UNESCO in Bangkok.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc finished AB Philosophy, cum laude, at Ateneo de Davao University under a Yuchengco Foundation scholarship. He has a Masters in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Applied Ethics from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway....