Dr. Ian Clark Parcon and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc were recognized in the 5th Ateneo de Davao University Research and Publication Recognition Ceremony held last February 17, 2023. The other honorees from the Philosophy Department of AdDU were Dr. Peter Paul Elicor, Dr. Renante Pilapil, and Dr. Vida Mia Valverde. The five faculty members were published in various indexed international scientific journals. Their papers were cited as well, according to Dr. Lourdesita Chan, director of the University Research Council of the Ateneo. Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ, University President, conferred the publication awards to the honorees at the Bapa Tudtud Auditorium.
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...