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Resume of the Founder of the Social Ethics Society

 

                Dr. Maboloc in Tokyo (2025) 

Education 

- He completed his AB in Philosophy (cum laude) from Ateneo de Davao University in 1996. 

- He earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University in 2001. 

- He pursued an Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Applied Ethics at Linköping University (Sweden) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) in 2008. 

- He earned his PhD in Philosophy from University of San Carlos (Cebu City, Philippines) in 2017, graduating maxima cum laude. 

Research interests & contributions

- He is a 2024 ASAP Yale Global Justice Program fellow. He was mentored by the renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge. He currently serves as a mentor to two 2025 ASAP fellows. He recently delivered a paper on the issue of poverty in Muslim Mindanao in the Yale Global Justice Conference. 

- He is the author of Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte, The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory, The Politics of Peace and the Mindanao Problem: Tracing the Roots of a Historical Injustice. He also wrote college textbooks in Ethics, Logic and Philosophy, published by Rex Book Store. 

- He has presented papers in international conferences such as the World Congress of Philosophy, the Asian Bioethics Conference, the Kumamoto Bioethics Round Table (KBRT 11), and the 1st Philippine Politics & Culture Conference at Nagoya University. 

He has also presented papers at the Gene Editing Conference at Chulalongkorn University, the International Ethics Conference at Waseda University, the Intensive Bioethics Training at Perdana University, and in the 6th & 7th Universal Science Education Research Network Congress. 

- He has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers and is considered as one of the most cited philosophers in his field in the Philippines. For example, from 2023-2025, he was ranked first in the Philippine subfield of Philosophy in the Alper-Döğer Scientific Index.

- He has delivered more than a hundred talks and lectures at different universities and colleges, including the University of the Philippines in Los Banos, De La Salle University, the University of Santo Tomas, Silliman University, the University of San Carlos, Mindanao State University - Main, and MSU-IIT, among others. 

- He won the 2020 Philosophical Association of the Philippines (PAP) Public Intellectual Prize: honoured for how he brings philosophical thinking into the public sphere. He was also a Scholarum nominee for Best Newspaper Column, an award given by DLSU. 

- He holds Visiting professorhip positions at Silliman University and the American University of Sovereign Nations. He has taught at Silliman University, the University of Southeastern Philippines, and at the Saint Alphonso's Theological Seminary & Mission Institute. 

Other roles & service

- After his studies abroad, he founded the Social Ethics Society (SES) with Dr. Romulo Bautista. The SES is an organization of Philosophy scholars and academics based in Mindanao. 

- He has been involved in local governance and policy consulting (for example with the City Government of Davao and the Department of Education in Davao City for the Dabawenyo DCPlinado Curriculum Integration Program) 

- He is active in public commentary and socia media as a columnist in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Cheonji Daily News, Edge Davao, and the Mindanao Journal. 

- He appears to have a strong connection to Mindanao issues (especially issues of structural inequality, indigenous and Muslim-Mindanao contexts) as a scholar. 

Significance & why he matters

- As a philosopher based in Mindanao (rather than in Metro Manila), his career signals decentralization of philosophical scholarship in the Philippines.

- He has engaged and collaborated with leading scholars such as Thomas Pogge, John Weckert, Goran Collste and Darryl Macer. 

- His work engages local socio-political issues (e.g., democracy, exclusion, technology, justice) with philosophical rigour and international training.

- Through public intellectual engagement (columns, commentary, policy advice) he crosses the boundary between academia and society — which is significant given the often limited public role of philosophers in the Philippines.

References:

Philpapers.org 

Academia.edu

Researchgate.com

Edgedavao.net 

Sunstar.com



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