Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc wins Best Paper in the 22nd Asian Bioethics Conference

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc won the BEST PAPER Award in the recently concluded 22nd Asian Bioethics Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. Maboloc's research is "Bioethics as the love of life and Post-Human Ethics after Covid-19." The award was announced by Dr. Ravi Moorthy, president of the Asian Bioethics Association.

The event, hosted by the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, was attended by 62 researchers, global public health experts, and ethics scholars from 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. The conference tackled global public health security and the ethics of emerging technologies, among others.

Dr. Maboloc's research traced the changes from humanism to post-humanism. He also discussed key developments in Artificial Intelligence and how it influences human behavior. Drawing from the work of Darryl Macer, he argued that modern technology can be harmonized with human life as well as our deepest universal values.

Dr. Darryl Macer, President of the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN) and Secretary General of the Asian Bioethics Association, gave the Keynote Speech. The theme of the conference was "Challenges to Bioethics in the Era of the Pandemic." A Round Table on Global Health Security was also held as part of the conference.

Fr. Dexter Veloso, PhD, the president of the Social Ethics Society (SES), and Dr. Aldrin Quintero, past president of the SES, attended the conference. Both have recently finished their doctorate degrees in global public health at the American University of Sovereign Nations. Dr. Quintero presented his excellent research on disaster ethics on the final day of the event.

Thomas Pogge to mentor AdDU prof in ASAP Global Justice Fellowship at Yale

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

Christopher Ryan Maboloc: An Intellectual Biography

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. A recipient of the Public Intellectual Prize from the Philosophical Association of the Philippines in 2020 and the founding President of the Social Ethics Society (SES), his noteworthy contribution is the use of philosophical theories to understand different socio-political issues and problems. Maboloc explores the juxtapositions between moral theory and r

Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society released

ETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE SOCIETY. Edited by CRB Maboloc, PhD, Foreword by Darryl Macer, PhD, with an introduction by Daniel Mishori, PhD. WORD FROM GLOBAL SCHOLARS “This book is a timely contribution to practical ethics. It deals with challenging moral problems like environmental hazards and climate change, justice, democracy and violence, and relates these burning issues to the present state of the Filipino society. At the same time the book is firmly anchored in moral theory. It is written in a clear and accessible style and serves as an excellent educational resource.” Dr. Göran Collste Professor Emeritus of Applied Ethics Linköping University, Sweden “This is a highly original approach to teaching applied ethics. Focusing as it does on issues that are part of the lives of the students and written by local scholars, it cannot help but be engaging. I very much enjoyed reading it and am sure that the students will gain not just theoretical ethical knowledge

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