Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (Ateneo), Dr. Bernard Caslib Jr (UP Manila), Dr. Rogelio Bayod (North Valley), Fr. Dexter Veloso, PhD (Holy Cross of Davao), and Kristine Cruz Alcazar (USJR), all members of the Social Ethics Society, delivered their respective papers at the 23rd Asian Bioethics Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. The event was held from March 25-29, 2025 with the theme Social, Legal and Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence. The conference was organized by Dr. Darryl Macer (AUSN) and Dr. Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn) and supported by UNESCO in Bangkok.
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...