Faculty members
Roland Theuas D. Pada
Associate Professor II
AB (UST), MA (UST), PhD (UST)
rdpada@ust.edu.ph
research
INTERESTS
Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Axel Honneth, Critical Theory
professional affiliations
Associate Professor II, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas
Fellow, Research Center on Culture, Arts, and Humanities, UST
Editor, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy
educational background
Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Philosophy
University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2016)Dissertation: The Problem of Freedom and Normativity in Axel Honneth’s Recognition Theory
Master of Arts, Major in Philosophy (magna cum laude)
University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2007)Thesis: The Problem of Logocentrism in Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Philosophy
University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines (2005)Thesis: Disclosing the Filipino Volksgeist through Martin Heidegger’s Phenomenological Hermeneutics
publications
BOOKS
- The Context of Logocentrism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 2020-2021 Forthcoming
- A Hornedo Philosophical Reader, UST Publishing House 2020
- Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition: Freedom, Normativity, and Identity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 2017
- How do we know that we know? (Selected Readings in Epistemology) UST Publishing House, Manila, 2015
ARTICLES
- “Humboldt’s Philosophy of Education: A Rational Foundation for Research Mentoring and Collaboration” (Collaboration with FPA Demeterio III) Handbook of Research Leadership in Philippine Higher Educational Institutions, De La Salle University Publishing House 2019
- “Book Review: Jovito Cariño’s Muni: Paglalayag sa Pamimilosopiyang Filipino,” Philosophia Vol.21, No.1, January 2020, pp.156-159.
- “A Humboldtian Critique of the University of the Philippines as the Flagship of Philippine Higher Education (Part II)” (Collaboration with FPA Demeterio III) Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy 2019
- “A Humboldtian Critique of the University of the Philippines as the Flagship of Philippine Higher Education (Part I)” (Collaboration with FPA Demeterio III) Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy 2018
- “Reification as a Normative Condition of Recognition” Philosophia, Vol. 18, 1:2017
- “Normativity, Social Critique, Social Pathologies, and Marx’s 11th Thesis” CSSTRP Conference Papers, Vol. 1, University of the Philippines Baguio, 2016
- “The Humanity of Florentino Hornedo in the Humanities”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No.2 2015
- “Eliciting a Sense of Normativity in Derrida through Honneth’s Theory of Recognition”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No.1 2015
- “The Methodological Problems of Filipino Philosophy”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol.8 No.1 2014
- “The Value of Nihilism in Hope: A Heideggerian and Nietzschean Reflection“ SURI, Vol.1, Issue 1 2012
- “Iterability and Différance”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol.3, No.2 2009
- “The Dialectics of Aporia: The Impossible Possibility of Intersubjectivity”, Ad Veritatem, Vol.7 No.2 2008
- “The Paradox of Ipseity and Difference: Derrida’s Deconstruction and Logocentrism”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy 2007
paper presentations
(recent five)
- Education and Identity: A Look at the Normative Claims of Philippine Education 5th Thomasian Philosophers Reunion Convention: “Education for Truth in the Secular Age,” University of Santo Tomas, March 31, 2017
- Social Struggles and the Progress of Asymmetries in Recognition Theory Annual Research Fortnight, RCCAH, TARC Auditorium, University of Santo Tomas, February 15, 2017
- Normativity in Communication and Morality, Lessons from Derrida’s SEC and Honneth’s Recognition Theory “45 Years of Jacques Derrida’s Signature Event Context” Collegio De San Lorenzo, September 9, 2016. 2016
- Normativity, Social Critique, Social Pathologies, and Marx’s 11th Thesis “Consolidating Lessons and Charting Directions” The College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Baguio, Crown Legacy Hotel, Baguio. November 12 –14, 2015
- Research and Thesis Writing “Scribo Writing Seminar” TARC Auditorium, University of Santo Tomas, October 22, 2015