Prof. Ian Clark Parcon of Ateneo de Davao University has been appointed by the Social Ethics Society Board as Managing Editor of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy. Prof. Parcon joins Dr. Peter Paul Elicor, Dr. Rogelio Bayod, and Dr. Randy Tudy, editors of the journal. The SES Journal publishes original papers in applied ethics, practical philosophy, political theory, continental philosophy, and development theory. The journal is indexed in the Andrew Gonzalez Philippine Citation Index, the ASEAN Citation Index, and the Philosopher's Index.
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...