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.