AdDU professor publishes 100th paper

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University has recently published his 100th paper. "Biopower, New Normal, Human Decency, and Otherness: Philosophical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic," has been included as a chapter in the new book Covid-19 and Public Policy, published in the UK by Emerald Publishing House, edited by Dr. Manas Chatterji of the University of Binghamton in New York.

The paper explains the origin, nature, issues, and impact of the public health emergency, thereby tracing and analyzing the social, economic, and the political implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic through the philosophical lens of Martin Heidegger and Albert Camus. The paper was presented at an international conference hosted by Binghamton University and also organized by the editor Dr. Chatterji.

Dr. Maboloc has published in journals such as the Journal of Public Health, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Disaster Preparedness and Medicine, the Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, and the Journal of Human Values, among others, including articles or chapters in Sage, Philosophy Documentation Center, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, and Cambridge University Press. He also ranks number 1 in the AD Scientific Index for Philosophy in the Philippines.

The Ateneo professor has written papers on the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. He has published on the Philosophy of Technology, bioethics, and climate change, including papers on the Philosophy of Education, and the Philosophy of Science. He has received two research grants from Ateneo, first for the project Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and second, for Structural and Historical Roots of Injustice in Muslim Mindanao.

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, Radical Democracy, and the Ethics of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. Dr. Maboloc was an ASAP - Yale Global Justice Fellow where he was mentored by the renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge. 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 finished AB Philosophy, cum laude, at Ateneo de Davao University under a Yuchengco Foundation scholarship. He has a Masters in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Applied Ethics from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He was the Erasmus Mundus (EM) Representativ...

Statement of the SES expressing its opposition to the proposal to remove Ethics in the GE Curriculum

We, members of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, express our strong opposition to the proposal to remove ethics in college. Such move is bereft of merit and is ignorant as to the value and purpose of the teaching of the course, which is thoroughly rooted in the integral and critical function of higher education. The proposal to transfer it to Senior High School deprives college students of the teaching of ethics as a professional course, which is crucial in their civic engagements and the pursuit of a democratic society that can only be grounded in responsible citizenship and critical thinking. The direction of Edcom and its advisers from the technical panels of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) reduces our whole education system into a mode of creating docile workers who will constitute the labor force that will serve the whims and interests of a capital intensive and consumer driven globalized neoliberal economic order. It only breeds our subser...

Statement of the SES BOD Chair

The Social Ethics Society was founded in 2010 by the late Dr. Romulo Bautista, a professor at Ateneo de Davao University who did his doctorate on Marx at the University of Madrid in Spain, and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, then a young teacher at Ateneo de Davao. The first SES Conference was held at the University of Mindanao. Its original membership was only 15, consisting mainly of the masters students of the two founders. While in the peripheries of academia, the SES pursued its goals of helping teachers in Mindanao develop their craft in ways that is consistent with philosophy as an exercise of the human will and as the highest expression of the human intellect. When its proponents presented the concept, it was suggested that the Union of Philosophical Societies and Associations in the Philippines (USAPP) will lobby for a new bill that will professionalize philosophy in the country. That was in 2018. Top UST philosophy academics, upon the invitation of Peter Elicor, attended t...

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