The Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy seeks to expand its reach, according to the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, the organization's policy making body. With Dr. Randy Tudy and Dr. Roger Bayod joining the editorial board, the journal opens itself to the ASEAN region, especially those who are into development theory as well as public administration. While the journal was primarily conceived for philosophy and ethics, the BOD stressed that it is also cross-, inter-, and trans-, disciplinary. The intent is to encourage more contributions from international scholars, it adds.
Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge. ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale. Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at H...