Mr. Arnel Morte, a philosophy faculty at the Central Mindanao University, will be presenting his paper "Technology as Value-laden and Teen-Age Pregnancy during the Pandemic" in the 15th International Public Health Conference (virtual) hosted by the American University of Sovereign Nations from March 5 to 7, 2021. The event gathers local and international scholars, including graduate students, to discuss issues related to the global health emergency crisis.
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 is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...