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Faculty members

Emeritus

Alfredo P. Co
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST), Post-Doc (Chinese University of Hong Kong; Sorbonne, Paris)
Chinese Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, East-West Comparative Philosophy
apco@ust.edu.ph

Core Faculty

Jove Jim S. Aguas
Professor
AB (UST), PhL (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Karol Wojtyla, Martin Buber, Phenomenology, Existentialism
Interests: Christian Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
jsaguas@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), MA, PhD (UST, on-going), PhD (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, on-going)
Aesthetics, Jean Baudrillard, French Contemporary Philosophy
gdagbisit@ust.edu.ph

Fleurdeliz R. Altez-Albela
Professor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Emmanuel Levinas, Phenomenology, Existentialism
faalbela@ust.edu.ph
Kriedge Chlaire C. Alba
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UP)
Specialization: Hannah Arendt, Feminism
Interests: Existentialism, Bioethics
kcalba@ust.edu.ph

Cathlyne Joy P. Alvarez-Abarejo
Instructor
AB (UP-D), MA (UP-D), PhD (UP-D; in-progress)
Specialization: Epistemology (Virtue Epistemology, Social Epistemology), Philosophy for Children (Lipman-Sharp)
Interests: Philosophy of Education (Dewey), Virtue Epistemology of Education, Logic, Ethics, Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein)
cpalvarez-abarejo@ust.edu.ph

Kyle Alfred M. Barte
Instructor
AB (Siliman University), MA (Siliman University), PhD (UST; in-progress)
Specialization: Chantal Mouffe, Philippine Democracy, Pierre Bourdieu
Interests: Byung-Chul Han, Neoliberalism, Democratic Theory
kmbarte@ust.edu.ph
Marc Aldous C. Baccay
Assistant Professor
AB (UST), MA (UST), JD (UE), LLM (UST; on-going)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Existentialism, Thomistic Philosophy, Daoism, Political Philosophy
mcbaccay@ust.edu.ph

Professor; Philosophy Graduate Program Lead
AB (UST), MA (UST), MA (Brock, Canada), PhD (Macquarie, Australia)
Specialization: Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Gilles Deleuze, Critical Theory, Post-Marxism
Interests: Radical Politics, Critique of Neoliberal Academia
pabolanos@ust.edu.ph
Professor

AB (Sto. Domingo), SThB (UST), SThL (UST), MA (UST), MA (AdMU), PhD (UST)
Thomas Aquinas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Social and Political Philosophy
jvcarino@ust.edu.ph

Professor
AB (CKMS), MA (CKMS), PhD (UST)
Paulo Freire, Critical Business Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
ffcortez@ust.edu.ph
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (Macquarie, Australia)
Continental French Philosophy, Aesthetics, Politics, Feminist Philosophy, Political Subjectivation
dodemandante@ust.edu.ph

Emmanuel C. De Leon
Associate Professor
AB (St. Augustine Seminary), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Filipino Philosophy
ecdeleon@ust.edu.ph
Assistant Professor
AB (Notre Dame of Marbel), MA (AdMU), PhD (UST)
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosophy of Information Technology
ordiamante@ust.edu.ph
Zhea Katrina R. Estrada
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UP-D; in-progress)
Specialization: Memory Studies, Urban Anthropology, Feminism
Interests: Democracy and Democratic Backsliding, Decolonialism
zrestrada@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST; in-progress)
Specialization: Simone Weil, Philosophy of Gerontology
Interests: Søren Kierkegaard, Existentialism
pceugenio@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
BSBA (DLSU-D), MEd (AdMU), MA (UST)
Specialization: Critical Pedagogy, Philosophy of Education
Interest: Philosophy for Children
psgapo@ust.edu.ph


Joshua Cedric A. Gundayao
Instructor
AB (ICMAS), MHRE (Universiti Malaya), MA (UP)
Specialization: Bonaventure, Health Research Ethics
Interests: Bioethics, Christian Philosophy, Resource Allocation
jagundayao@ust.edu.ph

Allison Cruyff V F. Ladero
Instructor
AB (Siliman University), MA (UST), PhD (UST; in-progress)
Specialization: Herbert Marcuse, Chantal Mouffe
Interests: Left Populism, Neoliberalism
afladero@ust.edu.ph
Emerito C. Gonzales
Assistant Professor; USTFU President
AB (UST), PhL (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST; in-progress)
Cosmology, Philosophy of Science
ecgonzales@ust.edu.ph

Assistant Professor
AB (UST), MLT (DLSU)
Philosophy of Education, Immanuel Kant, Constructivism
jpignacio@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST; in-progress)
Jacques Rancière, Post-Marxism, Social and Political Ontology
jzlino@ust.edu.ph

Assistant Professor
AB (UST), MA (UST)
Richard Rorty, Pragmatism
armaglalang@ust.edu.ph
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UP), JD (UST), PhD (UST; Cand.)
Judith Butler, Feminism, Social and Political Philosophy
jalombos@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST; in-progress)
Specialization: Ernst Bloch, Maria Lugones, Philosophies of the Global South, Social Epistemology, Gender Studies (Bakla Studies)
Interests: Jose Medina, Feminism, Intersectionality, Decolonization Studies
aemanalastas@ust.edu.ph

Professor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Søren Kierkegaard, Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion
rematienzo@ust.edu.ph
Professor; Department Chair
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Philosophy for Children, Philosophy of Childhood, Feminism
mmbolanos@ust.edu.ph

Professor
AB (San Pablo Seminary), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Erich Fromm, Social and Political Philosophy
Interest: Hartmut Rosa
ibpacquing@ust.edu.ph

Professor
AB (AdU), MBA (UST), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Thomistic Philosophy, Alan Gewirth
Interests: American Philosophy, Ethics and Human Rights
ramontana@ust.edu.ph

Marciana Agnes G. Ponsaran
Professor; Executive Secretary to the Rector
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Philosophy of Science, the Ethics of Nanotechnology
mgponsaran@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Sloterdijk, Philosophy of the City
Interest: Comparative Philosophy (Kyoto School, Daoism), Filipino Philosophy
alrennesland@ust.edu.ph

Associate Professor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Axel Honneth, Critical Theory
Interests: Niklas Luhmann, Max Stirner, Florentino Hornedo
rdpada@ust.edu.ph

Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), MPM (AdMU)
Søren Kierkegaard
cgregalado@ust.edu.ph

Associate Professor
AB (PUP), MA (CKMS), PhD (UST)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Franco Berardi, Byung-Chul Han, Social and Political Philosophy
rsreyes@ust.edu.ph

Rene Luis D. Tadle
Associate Professor; ALFA President
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST; Cand.)
Richard Rorty, Paulo Freire, Philosophy of Education
rdtadle@ust.edu.ph

Michael Anthony C. Vasco
Professor; Dean of the Graduate School
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Indian Philosophy, John Rawls, Social and Political Philosophy
mcvasco@ust.edu.ph

Professorial Lecturers

Peter Paul E. Elicor
AB (Rogationist Seminary, Cebu), MA (AdDU), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Philosophy of Childhood, Philosophy for/with Children, Epistemology,
Interests: Feminist Philosophy and Indigenous Philosophy, Epistemic injustice, culture, positionality, and indigenous issues
El Mithra M. Dela Cruz
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Specialization: Indian Philosophy, Sri Aurobindo
Interest: Existentialism
emdelacruz@ust.edu.ph
Jeffry V. Ocay
AB, AB (Holy Name University), MA (University of San Calos), MA (Siliman University), Post-Grad (The New School for Social Research, New York), PhD (Macquarie University, Australia), Post-Doc (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Specialization: Critical Theory (Marcuse and Honneth), Applied Ethics (Social Ethics and Bioethics)
Interests: Indigenous Rights, Politics of Recognition in South East Asia
Leovino Ma. Garcia
AB (AdMU), PhL (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belguim), PhD (Louvain, Belguim)
Specialization: Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas
Interests: Phenomenology, Aesthetics

Part-time Faculty

Jasmin B. Advincula
Instructor
AB (UP), MA (UP), JD (UST; in-progress)
Specialization: Martha Nussbaum, John Henry Newman
Interests: Edith Stein, Philosophy of Law, Phenomenology
jbadvincula@ust.edu.ph

Gillian Marian H. Garcia
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST)
Specialization: Edmund Husserl, Michael Polanyi
ghgarcia@ust.edu.ph

Carl Jayson D. Hernandez
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST; on-going)
Specialization: Aesthetics, Albert Camus, Existentialism, Philosophy and Fiction
Interests: Ethics, Existential Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Social Epistemology
kdhernandez@ust.edu.ph

Jayson C. Jimenez
Instructor
AB (PUP), MA (CTMS), PhD (University of Tasmania)
Specialization: Marx, Deleuze, Anthropocene as conceptual framework
Interests: Psychoanalytic theory (Lacan) and Geophilosophy (Deleuze/Guattari), Environmental Humanities
jcjimenez@ust.edu.ph

Gillian Marian H. Garcia
Instructor
AB (UST), MA (UST)
Specialization: Edmund Husserl, Michael Polanyi
ghgarcia@ust.edu.ph

Administrative Staff

Ronald S. Manalastas
Administrative assistant
rsmanalastas@ust.edu.ph















In Memoriam

+ Romualdo E. Abulad, S.V.D.
AB (UST), MA (AdMU), MA (DWST-Tagaytay), PhD (UST), Post-Doc (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Contemporary Philosophy
September 21, 1947 - December 17, 2019

+ Peter Emmanuel A. Mara
AB (UST), MA (UST), MA (Toulouse, France; Cand.)
Karol Wojtyla, Henri Bergson, Phenomenology
July 13, 1986 - August 28, 2023




+ Magdalena V. Alonso-Villaba
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
Indian Philosophy
July 22, 1928 – September 11, 2023

+ Josephine Acosta-Pasricha
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST), Post-Doc (University of Delhi, India)
Indian Philosophy
March 26, 1945 - June 6, 2020


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