Fr. Dexter Veloso, Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, and Prof. Aldrin Quintero, will attend the 22nd Asian Bioethics Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 15 -17, 2023. Dr. Maboloc will present his paper on post-human ethics in the round-table event. The gathering of ethics and public health experts will be jointly hosted by the Asian Bioethics Association, the International Medical University in Malaysia, and the Eubios Ethics Institute.
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...