Social Ethics Society

  Menelito Mansueto, a faculty member of the Philosophy Department of Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology, is in Marburg, Germany to attend the Southeast Asian University Partnership for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Regional Conference 2025 at Philipps-University, Marburg. Mansueto, the managing editor of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy, is the author of the book Decolonial Turn in the Philippine South. He has conducted research on local culture and indigeneity. He is a part of the SES-CTU research group that studied the way of life of the T'boli and Obu Manobo. 

  Professor Maji Rhee has been teaching at School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University since 2009. Prior to joining Waseda, Professor Rhee was a faculty member at Portland State University. Prof. Rhee received Ed.D. from Rutgers University, LL.M. and JS.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Prof. Rhee has been engaged in research projects related to forensic linguistics and Legal Communications. Dr. Ian Clark Parcon is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines. He has an extensive involvement in gender advocacy which spans more than 20 years of giving gender related trainings to different sectors in the community and advancing gender fair policies. He also is currently active in research dealing with male involvement in feminism. He holds a doctorate degree in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He finished his Master of Arts degree in Applied Ethics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,...

1. Cultivating Peace Through Moral Education in the Philippines: A Pathway to Harmony - Bernardo N. Caslib, Jr., Ph.D. (University of the Philippines – Manila) 2. Conatus over Conflict: Manifestation of Spinoza’s Transindividual Striving - Isabela Salaveria Carrillo (Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Sta. Mesa, Manila) 3. Ethical Global Citizenship Education for Social Justice - Emiliano Bosio (Toyo University, Japan) 4. An Ecocentric Approach to Autonomy in AI-Powered Nudging for Climate Change Mitigation - Joseph Martin Mendoza Jose, Ph.D (De La Salle University) 5. Mitigating Risks in AI: Can the Ethics Review Process Help? – Dr. Jeffrey L. Bartilet (Polytechnic University of the Philippines) 6. Supervision Strategies in Managing the Stress of Instructors due to Inevitable Academic Overloads and Pressures - Rhea Jane L. Caynila (Cebu Technological University) 7. Depoliticizing ESG: A Foucauldian Critique of Technicization and Neoliberal Strategies - Michael Angelo Bunagan ...

  Mindanao-based philosophy teachers held a forum to discuss the proposal to remove Ethics in the General Education curriculum. Four young college teachers expressed their views in separate presentations during the Ethics Forum hosted by the Social Ethics Society, held in Eden, Davao City on July 5, 2025. The presentors were Zandee Jaquias (USTP), Ardione Fuentes (Ateneo de Davao University), Adelbert Escollada (MSU - Gensan) and James Pabonita (Opol Community College).  The speakers discussed the practical, legal, strategic, economic, and moral aspect of the issue pertaining to the move of Edcom 2. The academicians who attended are united in their position to protest against this injustice that undermines the education of our youth. Mr. Niel Capidos, a graduate student at the Catholic University of Louvain, expressed that the proposal is not just a curricular matter but is something that impacts the employment of thousands of teachers, a sentiment that was also shared by othe...

  Academics from the country's top schools - UP Diliman, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, and the University of Santo Tomas, will be attending the first international conference organized by the Social Ethics Society (SES), the SES-PUP International Ethics Conference at Waseda University, an event initiated two years ago by the SES with Peace and Conflict Studies scholar Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University. The Polytechnic University of the Philippines is a co-organizer.  "The SES seeks to elevate local scholarship into global standards," says Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, SES Chair. A total of 49 academics will be presenting papers, including faculty members from Toyo University, the University of Ankara, and Hiroshima University. Fr. Dexter Veloso, SES President, is elated to know that the Ethics conference is getting a lot of interest. The gathering will discuss Philippine Democracy, Climate Justice, AI in Education, Artificial Intelligence, an...

  Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, the Chair of the Social Ethics Society and a Philosophy Professor at Ateneo de Davao University, has been appointed as a mentor to the fellows in the 2025 ASAP Yale University Global Justice Program.  Academics Stand Against Poverty or ASAP is a fellowship program meant to promote scholarship and research on the fight against global poverty. It was founded by Thomas Pogge, the director of Yale University's Global Justice Program.  For this year, 23 fellows were chosen from various countries to conduct research projects and join lectures by renowned global scholars. Dr. Maboloc was part of the pioneering fellows chosen in 2024. He was mentored by Thomas Pogge.