Fr. Dexter Veloso, PhD, President of the SES, is committed to helping send more delegates to the 26th World Congress of Philosophy in Japan come August 2028. Knowing the importance of the event in enhancing the teaching of Philosophy in Mindanao, he says that members of the SES should prepare in order to get the opportunity in the next four years. The SES, through the leadership of the charismatic priest, is the man behind the continued success of the SES. Members of the SES have joined conferences in Japan, Malaysia and Thailand since Fr. Veloso became the President of the organization, helping subsidize their participation.
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...