Fr. Urbano Pardillo Jr., Ph.L, the Academic Dean of the St. Francis Xavier College Seminary in Davao City, has been chosen by the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society as Editor of the Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy for a three-year term beginning in June 2015 until June 2018. A/Prof. Christopher Ryan Maboloc will be the associate editor while Mr. Peter Paul Elicor will act as managing editor. The editorial consultants of the journal include Dr. Jeffry Ocay of Silliman University, Dr. Ruby Suazo of the University of San Carlos, Dr. Jane Gallamaso of Xavier University, Dr. Ryan Urbano of the University of San Carlos, Dr. Raymond Pavo of the University of the Philippines in Mindanao, Dr. Orlando Ali Mandane Jr. of the University of San Carlos, Dr. Japhet Bakuwa of the University of Malawi, Dr. Godiva Eviota of Mindanao State University, Prof. Ian Clark Parcon of Ateneo de Davao University, and Dr. Christopher Agulanna of the University of Ibadan.
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....