Social Ethics Society

  Fr. Dexter Veloso, President of the Social Ethics Society, may be considered as a silent worker, but he is a strong force to reckon with. The leader of Mindanao's first philosophical association is the impetus of its internationalization program. Members of the SES have attended conferences abroad with the support and dedication of the good priest. The first of these conferences is the 11th Kumamoto Bioethics Round Table in Japan in 2018. This was followed by the 2019 Gene Editing Ethics Conference at Chulalongkorn University, the 22nd Asian Bioethics Conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (2023) and the 23rd Asian Bioethics Conference in Bangkok, Thailand in March this year. The latest initiative of the SES through the leadership of Fr. Dexter is the SES-PUP International Ethics Conference at Waseda University in Tokyo Japan this September. The event gathers scholars from Japan and the Philippines, including the country's top schools - UP, DLSU, UST, UPLB, PUP, and AdMU, to dis...

  Professor Menelito Mansueto of MSU-IIT will present his paper "Antonio Gramsci’s ‘Organic’ and ‘Traditional’ Intellectuals: Their Role in the Mobilization of a Walking Protest in the Sumilao Farmers’ “Walk for Land, Walk for Justice" in the SES-PUP International Ethics Conference at Waseda University in Tokyo this September 5&6, 2025.  The conference, organized by the Social Ethics Society and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in cooperation with the Center for International Education of Waseda University, gathers more than 40 international scholars to discuss climate justice, Artificial Intelligence in education, Philippine Democracy, Human Poverty, and Peace Building.  Mansueto teaches philosophy in one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The youthful researcher and scholar from Bohol is also a well-published academic. He is the author of Decolonial Turn in the Philippine South. He has also published papers in local and international j...

  Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, an associate professor at Ateneo de Davao University, has been ranked first in the Subfield Philosophy for the third straight year (2023, 2024, 2025) in the Alper-Doger AD Scientific Index. The AD Scientific Index uses the database of Google Scholar to track the published papers and citations of academics around the world. The H-index is an indicator of the quality and value of a scholar's research work.  According to Judy Hunter, "ideas are the currency in academia," adding that citations are important "to track the genealogy of ideas or their sources and origin". Citations, in this regard, will enable a researcher to recognize the valuable intellectual contributions of a fellow researcher. According to Dr. Jordan Peterson, more than 80% of papers in the Humanities do not get cited. In this sense, getting cited is a proof of the rigor of one's scholarly work.  The AD Scientific Index ranks scholars in the Social Sciences, Mat...

The world is at the crosspoint of social, political, and cultural tensions. As the world moves closer into the next phase of the modern Industrial Revolution, we are witnessing many political disruptions, the threat of climatic change, and social upheavals that challenge our present ethical norms and moral perspectives. Today, nations are linked together by issues of globalization, social justice, and environmental sustainability. The moral questions need to be posed if humanity must find the right direction and determine a better future for the generations ahead. Liberal and post-liberal concepts of peace are at the forefront of these vicissitudes. We can mention the present and continuing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, including the peacebuilding efforts in Mindanao in the Philippines after many decades of conflict. This ethics conference, a joint undertaking of the Social Ethics Society and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila will gather international researchers, ...