Park Jinwhan (PhD in Ethics Education, SNU, 1987) is Emeritus Professor of Gyeongsang National University (2015-present) and was the Opening Speaker of the 2025 Korean Ethics Education Society Conference. A leading scholar in Philosophical Inquiry (P4C), he significantly advanced the field through his service as President of PCYNAP (2011-2016) and Vice-President of ICPIC (2009-2011). From 2003 to 2005, he undertook crucial international co-work with Matthew Lipman and Megan Laverty. This collaboration, sponsored by the Korean Research Foundation, investigated Moral Judgment Education in the Information Era. His expertise includes moral judgment, analytical thinking, and higher-order thinking education. He previously served as President of the Korean Ethics Education Studies Association (2005-2006) and has organized numerous international workshops focusing on Critical, Creative, and Caring Thinking.

Keisha Christle A. Abog, an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), specializes in Philosophy for Children (P4C), Philosophy of Childhood, Philosophy of Education, Kantian Ethics, and Philosophy of Humor. She earned her BA Philosophy from UPLB and MA Philosophy from UP Diliman. Having been introduced to P4C only upon pursuing graduate studies, she has since dreamt of having a P4C-specific undergraduate course at UPLB. Committed to advancing P4C in the Philippines, she proposed the institution of PHLO 183 (P4C) at UPLB and has taught the course since its successful institution. She has presented papers at various conferences and participated in workshops on P4C, including those organized by The International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children and the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children. She was awarded the 2025-2026 UPLB Centennial Faculty Grant for her project to develop an instructional manual for PHLO 183.

Federico José T. Lagdameo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He has served previously as the Chair of the Philosophy Department of the Ateneo de Naga University and the Ateneo de Naga’s University Research Council (URC). Dr. Lagdameo received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University, where he is currently a Guest Lecturer. His research interests and publications have centered on social and political philosophy, identity formation, governmentality and poverty studies, ecology, ethics, business ethics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of technology, particularly AI technology. These interests are adjacent and linked to his project of further developing the affordance theory of technology he derived from the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault. 

He has served as the Issue Editor of the maiden issue of The Journal of Bikol Studies and the Managing Editor of BIKOLNON, the academic journal of the Graduate School of Ateneo de Naga University. His most recent publication is “Digital Governmentality: Technological Subjectivation and AI” (2025). Currently, he is a co-editor of the book anthology, Heidegger in Asia: Explorations and Conversations, which is to be published by Ateneo de Naga University Press this year. 

Dr. Lagdameo is a member of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), an independent, international organization devoted to the philosophical study of technology. He is also a member of the Heidegger Circle in Asia.

Panel Moderator

Rainier Ibana is the current president of PCYNAP. He teaches Ethics, Environmental Ethics, and Teaching Philosophy and serves as Editor of Budhi: A Journal of Ideas an Culture at Ateneo de Manila University.  He has been organizing student-and community-centered teacher-training workshops for the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines since 2007, and for UNESCO’s Regional Office in 2012 and 2018. With the support of UNESCO’s Participation Programme in Paris, he convened, edited, and published an anthology of Southeast Asian Wisdom Stories for Sustainable Development in 2012 (Manila: UNESCO National Commission).  Aside from the stories, this collection includes philosophical commentaries and teaching guides from eleven countries in the ASEAN region.  As a member of UNESCO’s World Commission for the Ethics of Science and Technology, he chaired their technical working group for Environmental Ethics from 2013 until 2018. He coordinated the Asia-Pacific section of UNESCO’s Philosophy Manual: A South-south Perspective (Paris: UNESCO, 2014), served as a member of the adhoc working group that drafted UNESCO’s “Declaration of Ethical Principles in Relation to Climate Change,” (2017), and was the main educator for UNESCO’s MOOC on Climate Change Ethics: Lessons from the Global South (London: FutureLearn, 2017).