Academia is one of the largest repositories of research articles in the world. At present, it has a database of 10 million articles. It was founded in 1999 by Richard Price. The top SES members in Academia include Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (Ateneo de Davao University), Dr. Jeffry Ocay (Eastern Visayas State University), Dr. Ruby Suazo (University of San Carlos), Dr. Randy Tudy (University of Southeastern Philippines), and Dr. Peter Paul Elicor (Ateneo de Davao University).
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...