Social Ethics Society

  Dr. Ian Clark Parcon, editor of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy, announced the Special Issue on Conference Proceedings for papers presented during the SES-PUP International Ethics Conference at Waseda University. A separate announcement will be made on a Call for Chapters for a book to be edited by Dr. Parcon and Dr. Juichiro Tanabe. The book is indexed in Scopus. All submissions are subject to regular review.  For the SES Journal Special Issue, please visit the journal website for the format. Send your manuscript to icrparcon@addu.edu.ph on or before October 31, 2025. 

  The SES-PUP International Ethics Conference was successfully concluded today, September 6, 2025 at the Center for International Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. Two more plenary lectures were delivered and another dozen papers were presented in the concurrent discussions during the day. Dr. Juichiro Tanabe, Conference Chair, formally closed the event.  Papers presented during the conference will be published in a special issue of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy. A Call for Book Chapters will be released. Papers presented during the conference can be submitted subject to regular review. Prof. Agnes Oblefias thanked Waseda University and the SES for the successful conduct of the event. Dr. Ian Clark Parcon and Dr. Godiva Eviota-Rivera served as event hosts. 

  The first day of the SES-PUP International Ethics Conference at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan was filled with great wisdom. The Plenary and Concurrent Discussions speakers delivered interesting and critical papers on a host of important issues. Dr. Maji Rhee (Waseda University) talked about Alastair MacIntyre and virtue ethics, Dr. Ian Clark Parcon (Ateneo de Davao University) discussed his thesis on agonistic democracy, and Dr. Napoleon Mabaquiao (De La Salle University) explored the question of moral personhood and Artificial Intelligence. The event is co-organized by the Social Ethics Society and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.  The presenters delivered equally important papers dealing with topics such as feminism, AI, environmental ethics, social justice, and Bioethics. Dr. Juichiro Tanabe, conference chair and host, welcomed the participants while Fr. Dexter Veloso, President of the Social Ethics Society, formally opened the event attended by academic...