Faculty members
Jovito V. Cariño
Professor I; Department Chair
AB (Sto. Domingo), MA (Ateneo de Manila), PhD (UST)
jvcarino@ust.edu.ph
research
SPECIALIZATIONS
Thomas Aquinas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Social and Political Philosophy
INTERESTS
Ancient and Medieval Philosophies, Ethics, Religion, Philippine Culture & Intellectual History
professional affiliations
Professor I, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas
Researcher, Research Center on Culture, Arts, and Humanities, UST
Researcher, National Research Council of the Philippines
Member of the following philosophical associations:
Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic StudiesInternational Society of MacIntyrean EnquiryPhilosophical Association of the PhilippinesSocial Ethics Society
recognitions received
GRANT
- World Health Organization. Translation of "WHO Quality Rights E-Training Modules." Published: October 2019. (Team member)
- Philippine Commission on Higher Education. "Special Intensive Courses for Philosophy Educators." ongoing - second year. (Team member)
- Research Grant. Catholic University of Lublin. Lublin, Poland. Dec 14-22, 2019
AWARDS
- Winner, PAP Public Intellectual Prize for 2022, Philosophical Association of the Philippines, April 2022
- National Book Award (Muni), National Book Development Board; Manila Critics Circle. December 2019.
- International Publication Award (2014-2017) University of Santo Tomas. 16 March 2018/
- Silver Series (2014-2016). University of Santo Tomas. 16 March 2018.
educational background
Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Philosophy
University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2016)
Master of Arts, Major in Philosophy
Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City (2009)
Licentiate in Sacred Theology
Faculty of Theology, Ecclesiastical Faculties, University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila (2003)
Master of Arts, Major in Theology
The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila (2003)
Bachelor of Sacred Theology
Faculty of Theology, Ecclesiastical Faculties, University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila (1996)
Bachelor of Philosophy
Philippine Dominican Center of Institutional Studies, Quezon City (1993)
publications
BOOKS
- Fundamentals of Ethics. C&E Publishing, 2018
- Muni: Paglalayag sa Pamimilosopiyang Filipino, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2018
BOOKS CHAPTERS
- “A Joyful (ex) Friar” in Pedregosa, OP, Quirico et al. (Eds.) At Nanahan sa Atin: Coming Home to the Roots of the Filipino Religious. Quezon City: Asia-Pacific Dominican Formation Center, 2002, pp. 205-212
- “Metaphysics and Poetic Thinking,” Across the Philosophical Silk Road: A Festschrift in Honor of Alfredo P. Co, Manila: UST Publishing House, 2009, pp. 159-166
ARTICLES/REVIEWS
- Article: “Modernity and the Question of Hope: Some Perspectives through Thomas Aquinas," Kritike Vol. 15, No. 3, December 2021
- Article: “A Report on Teaching and Doing Philosophy in the Philippines: Critique and Intervention.” Suri, Vol. 9, No.2, October 2021
- Article: “Public Reason and Catholic Philosophy in the Post-Thomistic Age” UNITAS. Vol. 94, No. 1, May 2021
- Book Review: Mary Midgley, What is Philosophy For? Kritike. Vol. 14, No. 2, December 2020
- Article: “St. Thomas Aquinas and the Revision of Catholic Philosophy.” Philippiniana Sacra. Vol. LV. No. 165. May – August 2020.
- Article: “The Spectre of Terror: Philippine Democracy and the Threat of the New (Ab)normal” in https://interferejournal.org/2020/08/28/the-spectre-of-terror/ in 28 August 2020.
- Article: “Pagsulyap sa Wika at Kasaysayan” in https://rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-glimpse-into-national-language-month-history. 7 August 2020
- Article: “Remembering Pope John Paul II: A Centenary Homage” in https://rappler.com/voices/imho/opinion-remembering-pope-john-paul-second-centenary-homage . 25 May 2020
- Article: “The Politics of Dissent” in https://rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-politics-dissent-anti-terror-bill . 11 June 2020
- Article: “The Place of Philosophy and Thought During the Corona Virus Crisis” in https://www.rappler.com/views/imho/256381-opinion-philosophy-community-quarantine-coronavirus. 30 March 2020
- Book Review: Moufe, Chantal, For A Left Populism in Kritike, Volume 13, Number 2, December 2019, pp. 175-177.
- Article: “Literary Criticism as a Philosophic Praxis,” Forum for World Literature Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2019, pp. 375-389.
- Book Review: Müller, Jan-Werner, What is Populism? in Kritike, Volume 13, Number 1, June 2019, pp. 161-163.
- Article: “Thematizing Thomism: Appropriating Aquinas’ Philosophic Thought within a Filipino Frame.” Diwa: Studies in Philosophy and Theology. Vol 43, No. 1, May 2019, pp. 64-83
- Article: Becoming Catholic in the Age of Duterte. Published in Rappler, https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/206593-becoming-catholic-age-of-duterte . 8 July 2018.
- Book Review: Pada, RT. Social Philosophy of Recognition: Freedom, Normativity and Identity. Kritike. Volume 12, Number 1, June 2018, pp. 293-296
- Article: “The Ethico-Political Theory of Thomas Aquinas and The Revival of Capital Punishment in the Philippines. Kritike. Volume 12, Number 1, June 2018, pp. 233-249.
- Article: “The university and the humanities” in Rappler, https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/198833-university-humanities-education, 25 March 2018
- Book Review: Eagleton, Terry, Materialism. Kritike. Volume 11. Number 2. December 2017, pp. 331-335.
- Book Review: Aguas, Jove Jim S. Person, Action and Love: The Philosophical Thoughts of Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II). Kritike. Volume 11. Number 1. June 2017, pp. 235-237.
- Book Review: Ferriols, Roque, Sulyap sa Aking Pinanggalingan, ed. by Leovino Ma. Garcia. Kritike. Volume 11, Number 1. June 2017, pp. 238-239.
- Article: “Re-thinking Catholic Philosophy: Alasdair MacIntyre and Tension Within Thomism” Kritike, Voluime 10, Number 2, Deccember 2016
- Article: “Diyos at Politka sa Pilipinas: Bakit Nga Ba Pabalik-balik Ang Multo ng Metapisika?” Hasaan Tomo III. Agosto 2016.
- Article: “Ang Tradisyon at Wika sa Kunteksto ng Nagbabagong Pagunawa sa Pagkabansa”. (Tradition and Language in the Context of the Changing Understanding of Nationhood) Baybayin. Vol. 1, No, 1, http://www.baybayin.com.ph/images/pdf/carino_august2015.pdf
- Book Review: Bolaños, Paolo A., On Affirmation and Becoming: A Deleuzian Introduction to Nietzsche’s Ethics and Ontology. Kritike. Volume 9, Number 2, December 2015, 230-233.
- Article: “Philosophy and The Academe: Origins, Contexts and Prospects.” Suri. Volume 4, No. 1, 2015, 15-28.
- Article: “The Catholic turn of phenomenology: A MacIntyrean rendition of the Thomistic detour of Edith Stein” Antoninus Journal. Volume 1. February 2015, pp. 8-19.
- Article: “Ang Etika Bilang Akademikong Diskurso sa Pilipinas: Isang Pagsusuri” (Ethics as Academic Discourse in the Philippines: An Analysis) Filocracia. Vol.1, No. 2, August 2014, pp. 55-66. . http://www.filocracia.org/issue2_pages/carinifo.html
- Book Review: “Nicholas, Jeffery L. Reason, Tradition and the Good: MacIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.” Kritike. Volume 8, No. 1, June 2014, pp.190-193
- Article: “Arkitektura at Globalisasyon sa Pilipinas: Isang Pagbabakasakali Tungo sa Isang Kritikal na Teoryang Kultrural.” (Architecture and Globalization in the Philippines: An Attempt Towards A Critical Cultural Theory) Malay. Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2014, pp. 1-11.
- Article: “Artists and Artistas.” Rappler. http://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-and-culture/50047-artists-vs-artistas 9 February 2014.
- Article: “Ang Larawan ng Filipino bilang Migrante: Isang Panukalang Hermenyutika ng Pagka-Filipino batay kay Paul Ricoeur.” (A Portrait of Filipino as Migrant: A Proposed Hermeneutic of Becoming Filipino based on the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur) Suri. Volume 2, No, 2, February 2014, pp. 43-57.
- “Ang Dayalektika ng Pilosopiyang Filipino batay kay Theodor Adorno”. (The Dialectic of Filipino Philosophy based on the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno) Hasaan. Tomo 1 2014, pp. 53-65
- Article: “Ethics, Narrativity and Citizenship Education.” Ad Veritatem. Vol. 12, No. 2, March 2013.
- Article: “Re-thinking Filipino Philosophy with Gilles Deleuze.” Mabini Review. Vol. 2, No, 1 2013, pp. 57-73.
- Article: “Philosophy, Well Being and The Identity of Catholic Universities.” Kritike. Vol. 6, No.1, June 2012, pp. 1-16.
- Book Review: “Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002, pp. 256.” Philipiniana Sacra, Vol. XLV, No. 135 September-December 2010
- Article: “On Medical Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Hellenistic Philosophers.” Philippiniana Sacra, Vol. XLV, No. 143, May – August 2010
- Book Review: “101 Stories on Philippine Revolution by Ambeth Ocampo. Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2009, 312 pp.” Philippiniana Sacra, Vol. XLV, No. 143, May – August 2010
- Book Review: “Science, Skepticism and The Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. New York: Bantam Books, 2008, pp. 320.” Philippiniana Sacra, Vol. XLV, No. 133, January – April 2010
- Article: “Heidegger and The Danger of Modern Technology.” Philippiniana Sacra. Vol. XLIV, No. 132 September – December 2009
- Thomas Aquinas and Aquinas University: Some Ideas Of A University For The Global Age. Monograph, Aquinas University, Legazpi City, Albay, April 2007
- Article: “Responsibility As Testimony In The Philosophy Of Emmanuel Levinas” Ad Veritatem: Multi-Disciplinary Research Journal Of The UST Graduate School Vol. 6, No.2, SY 2006-2007, March 2007
- Article: “A Hymn To Hope: Celebrating The Joy Of Being Human In Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics Of Narrative Discourse” Philippiniana Sacra, Vol. XLI, No. 122, May-August 2006
- Article: “In Praise of Philosophy” Ad Veritatem, Multi-Disciplinary Research Journal of the UST Graduate School, Vol 4, No.2 March 2005
- Article: “The Renewal of Religious Education in Letran-Calamba: Its Theological Foundation” Letran-Calamba Journal of Institutional Research and Development, SY 2003-2005
- Article: “Aswang, Women and Ethics” Letran-Calamba Journal of Institutional Research and Development, Vol. 1, No.2 SY 2001-2003
- Article: “Understanding Resurrection” Echoes, 2001, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Who is Jesus?” Echoes, 2001, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Voyeur TV: The Changing Landscape of Television” Echoes, 2001, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Creation Spirituality and Environmental Crisis” Echoes, 2000, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “The Filipino Laity: A Work In Progress” Echoes, 2000, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Things I Learned From Mathematics” Echoes, 2000, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Patsotsay” Echoes, 1999, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Why Poverty Is Not A Problem” Echoes, 1999, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “The Filipino Family and The New Christian Morality” Echoes, 1999, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “A Reflection on Law and Freedom” Echoes, 1999, Arts and Sciences Publication, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
- Article: “Ang Kwento ng Birhen ng Manaoag” UST Journal of Theology. Vol. XIV, 1995
- Article: “The Pentateuch: A Memorial To Covenant” Life Today Magazine. Vol. 49, No. 10 October 1993
POEMS
- “Spirit” Dominican Ashram Vol. 14, No. 2, June 1995
- “Palaisipan” Sunday Inquirer Magazine Vol. 9, No. 38, Nov 20, 1994
- “Apostolic Romance” Dominican Ashram Vol. 11, No. 3, September 1992
- “Paumanhin” Sunday Inquirer Magazine Vol. 5, No. 49, 3 Feb 1991
- “Buwan Kabilugan” Sunday Inquirer Magazine Vol. 5, No. 12, May 20, 1990
- “Tsismis” Sunday Inquirer Magazine Vol. 5, No. 5, April 5, 1990
paper presentations
(recent five)
- "Gunita ng Nakalipas na Limang Siglo" UMPILAN (Kumperensiya ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas) 24 April 2021
- “Critical Theory and Tradition.” The Crisis of Critical Theory Conference. Online Conference. 24 October 2020
- “Literary Criticism as a Philosophic Practice.” International Conference on Literary Criticism and Interdisciplinary Studies. University of Santo Tomas, April 26-28, 2019.
- “St. Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Revision of Catholic Philosophy.”” Plenary Lecture. 1st FPSF Conference on Medieval Philosophy, Ecclesiastical Faculties, University of Santo Tomas, March 7-8, 2019.
- “The University and the Humanities” Research Fortnight. Research Center for Culture, Arts and Humanities. University of Santo Tomas. 19 February 2019.