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Research Profiles

• Br. Romualdo E. Abulad, SVD, Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Kant, Wittgenstein, Levinas, Gadamer, Marx, Postmodernism, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Eastern Philosophies, Filipino Philosophy.


• Antonio P. Diluvio, M.A.
  Research Interests:  Zen, Daoism, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Education, Symbolic Logic, and Health Ethics.


• Rosario M. Espina, Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Marxism, Philosophy of Culture, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy


• Alvin A. Galeon, Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Philosophy of Education, Cosmology, History of Philosophy, Habermas, and Advanced Logic.


• Bernard Inocentes Garcia S., M.A. Ll.B.
  Research Interests: Lonergan, Philosophy of Law, Advanced Logic, Philosophy of the Human Person.


• Fr. Heinz Kulüke, S.V.D., Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Heidegger, Nietzsche, Husserl, Kierkegaard, German Philosophy, Advanced Metaphysics, Hermeneutics, Advanced Philosophy of Man.


• Orlando Ali M. Mandane Jr., Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Foucault, Marcuse, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Technology, Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, Philosophy of the Human Person, Contemporary Metaphysics.


• Franco C. Pagaran Jr., M.A., Ll.B.
  Research Interests: Sun Zi, Philosophy of Law, Advanced Ethics, Advanced Logic.


• Pescadero F. Jerry, M.A.
  Research Interests: Nietzsche, Philosophy of Environment, Advanced Ethics, Philosophy of the Human Person, Advanced Logic.


• Maria Majorie Purino, M.A. 
  Research Interests: Kant, Heidegger, D.T. Suzuki, Philosophy of the Human Person, Zen Buddhism, Postmodernism.


• Ruby S. Suazo, Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Ricoeur, Nietzsche, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Modern Philosophy, Advanced Ethics


• Ryan C. Urbano, MA
  Research Interests: Nietzsche, Levinas, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Contemporary Philosophy, Applied Ethics.


• Amosa Velez, Ph.D.
  Research Interests: Zhuang Zi, Philosophies of India and China, Advanced Philosophy of the Human Person, Filipino Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology.


• Lot T. Tabilid, Jr., MA
  Research Interests: Max Scheler, Philosophy of the Human Person, Logic, Ethics


• Gregorio Refugio, MA
  Research Interests: Mencius, General Ethics, Health Ethics, Logic, Advanced Philosophy of Man, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law


• Jaime Leon Cardona, AB
  Research Interest: Heidegger, Logic, Philosophy of Man, Health Ethics, Philosophy of Religion


• Daryl Y. Mendoza, PhB.
  Research Interests: Jean Baudrillard, Poststructuralism, Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of the Human Person


• Dr. Charito J. Pizarro
  Research Interests: James Joyce, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Metaphor

Publication

The Department of Philosophy in association with the Philosophical Association of the Visayas and Mindanao (PHAVISMINDA) publishes the PHAVISMINDA Journal, an annual refereed journal for philosophy.

The Journal is edited by Orlando Ali M. Mandane Jr., Ph.D. The Editorial Consultants are: Br. Romualdo E. Abulad, SVD, Ph.D., Eddie Babor, Ll.B., Ph.D., Jane Gallamaso, Ph.D., Fr. Heinz Kulüke, S.V.D., Ph.D., Rosario M. Espina, Ph.D., and Amosa L. Velez, Ph.D.