Rainier R.A. Ibana, Ph.D.
AUSN Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Ethics
Professor, Ateneo de Manila University, the Phillipines
Member, World Commission on Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST, UNESCO)
Former Chair, CHED Technical Committee for Philosophy, the Philippines
Former Commissioner, UNESCO National Commission for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, the Philippines
President, Asia-Pacific Philosophy Education Network for Democracy
Featured AUSN Video lectures (Youtube links)
International ethical principles for climate change: Adaptation to Mitigation
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, USA (1989)
M.A. in Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines (1982)
B.A. in Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines (l979)
Member of the Editorial Board, Humanitas Asiatica, Philosophy, Culture, Traditions, Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture
Academic Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy of the Human Person, Ethics, Contemporary Crisis of Reason, Habermas, Max Scheler, Karol Wojtyla, Existential Thomism, Social Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Education.
Publications include:
“Pagbabalik sa Nagmemeron Mismo” Karunungan (2006)
(2006) “Towards a Phenomenology of the Common Good” Orbis Phenomnenologicus (Munich)
A description of the subjective conditions for the possibility of the common good from the perspective of the Philippine lifeworld.
(2004) “Cultural Encounters in the Philippines from Educational Perspectives” Cultural Encounters in Asia (Tokyo: International Christian University)
(2004) “Taoism, Thomism, Critical Theory: Three Philosophical Approaches to Social Reality” Karunungan pp. 135-144.
(2003) “Brain-based Learning and the Cultivation of Democratic Virtues” Philosophy, Education and Democracy Ed. by Philip Cam (Seoul: Korean National Commission for UNESCO), pp. 137-148.