The discussion centered on the importance of philosophy and its relevance to life. According to Gozum, philosophy is not just about thinking critically, but also about finding and implementing solutions to practical problems of society. He added that philosophy is not about making a living, but rather, it makes life worth living. In the same vein, Aguas contrasted the purely academic exercise of philosophy from a philosophy rooted in and relevant to daily life. In line with this, he underlined the importance of civic engagement as a critical component of philosophical education.

World 鱿鱼视频app Day is celebrated annually every third Thursday of November as set by the UNESCO. In the 鱿鱼视频app, courses in philosophy form an important part of the curriculum, from senior high school all the way to the doctoral level. UST鈥檚 Department of 鱿鱼视频app is one of the university鈥檚 best units, recognized in the country as a Center of Excellence. The Department also manages a peer-reviewed and indexed open access journal, Kritike. Meanwhile, the Ecclesiastical Faculty of 鱿鱼视频app, which is as old as UST itself, has for centuries helped shape future clergymen into becoming astute thinkers ready to minister to the faithful.

The full interview can accessed through this link:

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UST tallied a 39.8-42.5 score and secured its place in the 251-300 bracket.聽Moreover, it scored 54.7 in input, 66.7 in process, and 29.7 in the output metrics.聽

THE Interdisciplinary Science Ranking based their assessment in 11 metrics grouped under three pillars: inputs (19%), process (16%) and outputs (65%). 

Under the inputs metric, schools鈥� interdisciplinary science research funding (8%) and industry funding (11%) are measured. The measure of success (4%), physical facilities (4%), administrative support (4%), and promotion success (4%) make up the process criterion.聽

The outputs pillar evaluated the quantity of interdisciplinary science research publications (10%), its proportion among all publications (5%), utility outside the discipline (5%), publication quality (20%), and reputation (20%).

Within the University are research centers that allow interdisciplinary collaborations across the research interest groups, especially those targeting concerns laid down in agenda such as the Sustainable Development Goals.

The full results of the 2025 rankings can be viewed here:

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This conference is also the St. Thomas Aquinas Forum and the 12th Leonardo Legaspi, O.P. Lecture.

Interested presenters may send abstracts (about 300 words) focused on one of the themes set by the conference. For more details, click here.

Submissions must be sent to aquinasconferences@ust.edu.ph no later than November 30, 2024.

Accepted abstracts during the first round of review will have to be developed into a paper of about 3,000 words. This has to be submitted no later than January 15, 2025, and will serve as basis for the final inclusion in the program.

There will be a limited slot for parallel session papers. Only those submitted before the deadline will be accommodated.

The Conference will not charge any conference fees. All paper presentations will have to be done onsite.

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Complying with the Congress’s pledge to diversity, researchers from UST gave talks and took part in panels that broadened the discussion on Filipino philosophy and its role in international discourse. Professor Jove Jim S. Aguas of the Department of 鱿鱼视频app, Graduate School, and Center for Theology, Religious Studies, and Ethics was a major contributor to the Congress. In addition to moderating and chairing the PAP Society Session titled “Filipino 鱿鱼视频app in Dialogue: Expanding the Conversation,” Aguas contributed to the Center for Research in Values and 鱿鱼视频app (CRVP) Round Table Discussion on National Values by presenting a paper titled “The Ambiguity of the Filipino Sense of Nationalism and Filipino Identity.”

In the Contributed Paper Sessions, Thomasian scholars presented their respective papers: 

鈼徛� 聽聽聽 Prof. Fleurdeliz R. Altez-Albela, PhD (Department of 鱿鱼视频app, Graduate School, and Center for Theology, Religious Studies, and Ethics) – “What Is Levinasian in Sustainability?: Sustainability in the Economy of Being Through Levinas鈥� Third”

鈼�      Junior Teacher Blaise D. Ringor, PhD (Senior High School and Ecclesiastical Faculties) – “Education, Christian Values, and the Voiding of Reason: John Henry Newman鈥檚 Personalist Education”

鈼�      Mr. Christian U. Solis, MA (Senior High School and Graduate School) – “Towards Understanding Fidelity in Marriage and Family: Paul Ricoeur on Man鈥檚 Capacity to Promise”

鈼�      Mr. Charles Aldrin A. Delgado (Graduate School) – “Christianity as Discomfort: Kierkegaard鈥檚 鱿鱼视频app of Religion”

鈼�      Inst. Ivan Efreaim A. Gozum, MA (Institute of Religion and Graduate School) – “Understanding Filipino Close Family Ties Through Gabriel Marcel鈥檚 Mystery of the Family”

Aguas also presented the paper entitled “The Relevance of the Metaphysics and the Notions of Being and Analogy of St. Thomas.”

These talks demonstrated the breadth and depth of philosophical study at UST and the contributions made by Filipino academics to international philosophical debates. Additionally, through one-on-one interactions, the Congress gave Filipino scholars a rare chance to fortify relationships and build mutual trust.

The Congress emphasized Rome’s long-standing position as a crossroads of civilizations, and it began with a ceremony at the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Prof. Luca Maria Scarantino, President of FISP, and Prof. Antonella Polimeni, Rector of Sapienza University, both emphasized the merging of humanistic and scientific cultures in philosophical conversations, reinforcing this subject of interconnection in their introductory statements.

Scholars addressed pressing ethical, social, cultural, political, and spiritual concerns all week long. Topics covered included the ethics of artificial intelligence, with discussions on the implications of AI on human decision-making and the ethical responsibilities of AI developers, and the place of spirituality in secular cultures, with debates on the role of spirituality in a modern, secular society. The Congress featured round table discussions, invited sessions, symposia, contributed paper sessions, endowed lectures, plenary sessions, student sessions, and the FISP General Assembly. The goal of these talks was to question conventional wisdom in philosophy by tackling issues of sustainability, gender and cultural diversity, inequality, and other modern world concerns.

Every five years, the WCP is arranged by the Federation Internationale des Soci茅t茅s de Philosophie (FISP) or the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. The WCP is a major conference that brings together philosophers, educators, students, and philosophy aficionados worldwide for a week-long discussion of a certain issue.

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The collaboratory is a four-part webinar series featuring Thomasian experts. Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Cheryl R. Peralta, DrPH provided the overview of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education on August 12, 2024, while Educational Technology Center Acting Director April Joy M. Gascon, MAN, RN spoke about Innovating Teaching and Learning with AI.

On August 28, 2024, College of Education Assistant Dean Louie B. Dasas, PhD will discuss (Re)Designing Learning Assessments with AI in Mind, while Institute of Religion academic researcher Leo-Martin Angelo R. Ocampo, MA will close the series with the talk 鈥淪trengthening Humanity and Human Agency in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,鈥� in a big to refocus the discourse on the role of humans in the use of technology.

Interested participants may register here:

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Professor Jove Jim S. Aguas, PhD of the Department of Philosophy discoursed on 鈥淐hristian Humanism and St. Thomas鈥檚 Notion of the Human Person,鈥� where he acknowledged that as science and technology advanced, spiritual dimensions of human life often became ignored. Using Aquinas鈥檚 philosophy, Aguas 鈥渟hows that a humanism centered on Christian belief is still a relevant and more acceptable proposition over modern and secular humanism.鈥� Furthermore, Aguas said that 鈥渇or St. Thomas, man has a spiritual component, and he is ordained towards God. He developed a Christian humanism anchored on theological personalism, a concept that emphasizes the unique relationship between each individual and God and how this relationship shapes our understanding of human dignity and purpose.鈥�

Meanwhile, Junior Teacher Blaise D. Ringor, PhD of the Senior High School and concurrent Academic Collaborations Officer of the Ecclesiastical Faculties, presented his paper entitled 鈥淔rom Garden of Eden to Garden of Gethsemane: Dietrich von Hildrebrand鈥檚 Ethics of Incommensurability as a Justification of Loving as Critical Thinking,鈥� where he argued that the interiority of the person is neglected by traditionalist views of ethics. In doing so, he looks at Dietrich von Hildrebrand鈥檚 critique and discourses on the former鈥檚 ethics of incommensurability to address the flaw by integrating the reality of loving into critical thinking. Ringor argued that 鈥淗ildebrand鈥檚 approach provides a robust ethical framework that acknowledges the full complexity of the human person, thereby enriching critical thinking with a deeper understanding of love’s ethical significance.鈥�

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Moreover, he also stressed the significance of culture, which embraces everything in which man is at once the center, the subject, and the object. In many of his addresses, the underlying message focuses on establishing a climate of openness, dialogue, and cooperation among science, culture, and religion because they are not to be seen as competing against each other. John Paul II sees a growing critical openness towards people of different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints.

There is then a greater opportunity for intellectual coherence and collaboration and to discover values and experiences common to these different dimensions of our intellectual life. It is, therefore, necessary to reflect on the commonalities and diversities motivated by respectful openness, dynamic exchange, and critical collaboration among them.

In the spirit of dialogue and in commemoration of the 10 th Anniversary of the Canonization of St.
Pope John Paul II, we organize this International Conference with the theme God and the World:
Dialogues on Culture, Religion, and Science. The objective is to bring together scientists,
philosophers, theologians, and other intellectuals to converse, share their respective insights, and
foster a dynamic collaboration among these men and women of learning toward mutual
understanding and a gradual uncovering of common concerns, which will provide the basis for
further research and discussions.

This international conference is co-organized by the 鱿鱼视频app (through the
Ecclesiastical Faculty of 鱿鱼视频app, the Center for Theology, Religious Studies and Ethics and its
Center for Dialogue with Cultures and Religions in Asia, the Institute of Religion, the Graduate
School, and the College of Science) and the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society
(PNPRS), the John Paul II Society of the Philippines, and the John Paul II Institute of the Catholic
University of Lublin. This will be done on June 26-28, 2024 through a Hyflex mode with the Thomas
Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium, 鱿鱼视频app, Manila, Philippines, as the
onsite venue.

Interested scholars may check the details of the Conference and the Call for Papers through the FB
Page of the PNPRS: https://bit.ly/JP2Conference2024.

Questions may be sent to jp2.dialogue.conferences@ust.edu.ph. The organizers may also be
contacted through the CTRSE Office: +63-2 9786-1611 loc. 8659.

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• Dialogue with Cultures and Religions in Asia
• Thomistic Studies
• Catholic Doctrine
• Church History and Historical Theology
• Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue
• Early Christian Studies
• Christian Anthropology
• Human Rights and Just Political Order
• Catholic Bioethics
• Catholic Moral Theology
• Catholic Social Thought
• Religious Education
• Philosophical Ethics
• Environmental Ethics

Research Grants are available for tenured Faculty members of the 鱿鱼视频app (Manila) who have good publication records and a doctorate degree in a discipline relevant to the area of research interest. 

Researchers are encouraged to send their accomplished research proposal and research capsule to ctrse@ust.edu.ph not later than May 30, 2024. Proposals approved after peer review will be accepted for AY 2024-2025. 

You may download the Research Proposal and Research Capsule through: . 

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A Cooperation between Dominican Institutions in Manila, Ibadan, and Fribourg

Sex and Gender have become fluid categories 鈥� as never in the history of mankind before. What are the scientific backgrounds, and what are the consequences for theology? What do these developments mean for a global player like the Catholic Church? We shall discuss the different (and/or similar?) perspectives with researchers and students from the Dominican Universities in Manila and Ibadan and the Faculty of Theology in Fribourg, which is coined by the Dominican spirit.

The 4th CoMIF is scheduled on April 12, 2024, Friday (2:00 – 6:00 pm, Manila / 8:00am – 12:00nn Fribourg and Ibadan). The CoMIF (or Collaboration of Manila, Ibadan and Fribourg) is an informal collaborative arrangement initiated by academic staff from the 鱿鱼视频app (Manila), Dominican University (Ibadan), and the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg (Fribourg). 

Those interested to participate in the conversation may register through Zoom:   

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Independent rankings website EduRank, which uses research publications and citations as data, named the 鱿鱼视频app as the top Philippine university for the field of Theology and Religious Studies in terms of research outputs and citations. The rankings were released on February 29, 2024.

UST, a Pontifical University and the Catholic University of the Philippines, operates three ecclesiastical faculties: Sacred Theology, 鱿鱼视频app, and Canon Law. It also offers civil degrees on theology (major in social-pastoral communication) at the Graduate School, while theology/Christian living courses are institutionally mandated in the tertiary and basic education levels, respectively.

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