Philosophers from the South (Part 2)

8. Prof. Menelito Mansueto is probably one of the most courageous among the young scholars from the South. He is originally from Bohol and has taught at UST, FEU Diliman, BISU and now, at MSU-IIT. He juxtaposes philosophy with history and has taken the cudgels defending the interpretation of radical democracy in the works of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc.

9. Prof. Alvert Dalona is the former chairman of the Philosophy Department of MSU-IIT. The school is the only institution in the country that offers applied philosophy as a major. He is working on the Philosophy of Language for his Dissertation. He finished his MA at Ateneo de Davao University and is doing doctoral studies at Saint Louis University in Baguio City.

10. Dr. Vida Mia Valverde is the chair of the Philosophy Department at Ateneo de Davao University. She finished her MA at De La Salle University under the tutulege of Dr. Jeremiah Joaquin and her doctoral degree at Ateneo de Manila University under the supervision of Dr. Rainier Ibana. Dr. Valverde is an expert in the Philosophy of Science. Her interests include Feminism and Ethics.

11. Atty. Jamil Matalam studied Law and Economics in Europe after finishing his MA at Ateneo de Davao University. A strong advocate for Bangsamoro autonomy, he is an Associate Dean at the University of Southeastern Philippines College of Law. Atty. Matalam's interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy and Critical Theory, especially Herbert Marcuse.

12. Dr. Peter Paul Elicor did his post graduate studies in Austria. He finished his doctorate degree at the University of Santo Tomas under the guidance of Dr. Zosimo Lee. Dr. Elicor is a well-published author and is an expert in the Philosophy for Children. He is previously connected with Ateneo de Davao University. He is the former editor of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy.

13. Prof. Joharel Escobia is a young and promising academic who is teaching at MSU-IIT. He is previously connected with Urios College. He took his Masters in Philosophy at Ateneo de Davao University during the time of Dr. Romulo Bautista. He is a part of a triumvirate that includes Dr. Peter Elicor and Prof. Alvert Dalona. Prof. Escobia has written and presented papers on Giorgio Agamben.

14. Dr. Godiva Eviota-Rivera is a Professor at Mindanao State University in Marawi. She is a peace educator and advocate. She has written and presented papers on the subject matter, using local peace narratives and indigenous paradigms to understand the problem and explore the role of inter-religious dialogue and communal values in the pursuit of peace and social justice in the context of the Bangsamoro.

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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