UP Department of Philosophy

UP Department of Philosophy The official page of the Department of Philosophy of the University of the Philippines-Diliman
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The Department was initially founded in 1910 within a single department as that of the Department of Psychology. Around the middle of the 20th century, through the leadership of Dr. Ricardo Pascual, a student of philosopher Rudolf Carnap, it became a separate entity that is now known as the UP Diliman Department of Philosophy. Today, it continues to be at the forefront of the analytic tradition of philosophizing in the Philippines.

The UP Department of Philosophy congratulates Professor Jeanette Yasol-Naval and the Yasol family on receiving the UPDAA...
21/08/2026

The UP Department of Philosophy congratulates Professor Jeanette Yasol-Naval and the Yasol family on receiving the UPDAA Multi-Generational Alumni Family Award. We join them in celebrating three generations of UP scholars in their family.

Ngayong Pambansang Buwan ng Kasaysayan (National History Month), iniimbitahan ang lahat sa isang espesyal na forum na pi...
20/08/2026

Ngayong Pambansang Buwan ng Kasaysayan (National History Month), iniimbitahan ang lahat sa isang espesyal na forum na pinamagatang, "๐Š๐š๐›๐š๐›๐š๐ข๐ก๐š๐ง, ๐“๐š๐ ๐š๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐š: ๐Œ๐ ๐š ๐Š๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐š ๐Š๐š๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐š๐ง, ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฒ๐š, ๐š๐ญ ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐š ๐ฌ๐š ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฌ", tampok ang isang natatanging serye ng mga presentasyon upang talakayin at gunitain ang mga makasaysayang tagumpay at namamalaging pamana ng mga kababaihang tagapanguna sa larangan ng kasaysayan, pilosopiya, at medisina. ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿšบ

Si Prof. Ma. Theresa Payongayong, mula sa UP Department of Philosophy, ay isa sa mga tagapagsalita sa forum na ito.

๐Ÿ—“ Date: 28 August 2026 (Friday)
โฐ๏ธ Time: 1:00 PM โ€“ 4:00 PM
๐ŸŽŸ Venue: UP Manila Theater

Mag-register gamit ang link โžก๏ธ
https://forms.gle/BkztGzHJBcsx997S7



[๐๐”๐๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐€๐‹๐„๐‘๐“] The UP Department of Philosophy congratulates Prof. Ma. Theresa Payongayong on the publication of he...
20/08/2026

[๐๐”๐๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐€๐‹๐„๐‘๐“] The UP Department of Philosophy congratulates Prof. Ma. Theresa Payongayong on the publication of her co-authored work, โ€œGender in Philippine education and philosophy: A collective writing project" in Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2026. In this work, Prof. Payongayong contributed a discussion on the discursive and institutional approaches to gender mainstreaming.

ABSTRACT:
This project examines the critical reorientation toward gender in Philippine education and philosophy, situated at the intersection of institutional consolidation and critical inquiry. Drawing on domestic legislative mandates, such as the Magna Carta of Women and Gender and Development (GAD) frameworks, and global benchmarks like Sustainable Development Goal 5, it critically interrogates the paradoxical terrain where high global gender parity rankings coexist with persistent structural inequalities, epistemic marginalization, and symbolic erasure. Moving beyond procedural compliance and tokenistic quantitative metrics, the collection evaluates whether gender mainstreaming achieves substantive epistemic justice or succumbs to administrative domestication. The contributions span diverse domains, including basic and higher education, health care curricula, indigenous and decolonial feminist epistemologies, critical masculinities, and canonical revisions of Filipino philosophy. Finally, the project argues for a reflexive, contextually situated, and globally conversant philosophy of education that moves beyond merely mainstreaming gender to allowing gendered critique to transform the ethical, epistemic, and pedagogical foundations of education and philosophy themselves.

Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming, Philosophy of Education, Gender and Development

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Educational Philosophy and Theory publishes articles on all aspects of educational philosophy, as well as other areas of pure or applied educational research.

See the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2026.2709645

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In accordance with Memorandum Circular No. 131, issued by the Office of the President and posted on the Presidential Com...
19/08/2026

In accordance with Memorandum Circular No. 131, issued by the Office of the President and posted on the Presidential Communications Office page, the UP Diliman (UPD) Office of the Chancellor announced that UPD will observe alternative arrangements for classes and work (except for essential offices) tomorrow, 20 August 2026.

Stay safe.

The U.P. Department of Philosophy is privileged to have both returning and new members of the faculty on its roster star...
18/08/2026

The U.P. Department of Philosophy is privileged to have both returning and new members of the faculty on its roster starting 1st Semester, AY 2026-2027. Padayon mga kasama sa pamimilosopiya!

Francis Julius Evangelista, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Pamela Ann J. Boongaling, M.A.
Assistant Professor

Sean Marcus Ingalla
Lecturer

Ron Joshua Imperial
Lecturer

[๐๐”๐๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐€๐‹๐„๐‘๐“] The UP Department of Philosophy congratulates Prof. John Ian Boongaling on the publication of his wo...
18/08/2026

[๐๐”๐๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐€๐‹๐„๐‘๐“] The UP Department of Philosophy congratulates Prof. John Ian Boongaling on the publication of his work titled โ€œOn Blum's Argument for the Soundness of the S5 Axiom" in The Reasoner, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2026.

ABSTRACT:
In a recent paper, Blum argues that the characteristic axiom of S5 issound when the modal operators are interpreted as logical necessity and logical possibility. In this paper, I show that this interpretation elim-inates the modal dimension: logical necessity, whether understood asvalidity or provability, is a global property of formulas, so the argumentcollapses to a triviality.

Keywords: Modal Logic, Logical Necessity, S5

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The Reasoner is a quarterly focussing on reasoning, inference and method broadly construed. Supported by Centre for Reasoning of the University of Kent until 2024, from 2024 the journal is published by the University of Milan on the Riviste Unimi platform. Issues from 2007 to 2024 have been retrieved on the Riviste Unimi Platform by the University of Milan. For each issue, the table of contents has been retrieved and the full-text is avalaible below the full issue.

See the article here: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/thereasoner/article/view/31266/27078

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Faculty members from the U.P. Department of Philosophy attended the 2026 College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Facul...
17/08/2026

Faculty members from the U.P. Department of Philosophy attended the 2026 College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Faculty Conference with the theme โ€œWeaving Strengths, Bridging Gaps: Sharing Best Practices and Mapping Pathways for CSSP. It was held at the Atencio Libunao Hall, UP Diliman this rainy August 17, 2026. Photos courtesy of Mr. Adrian Gabriel.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: The faculty offices of the Department of Philosophy are closed on August 17, 2026.Faculty members ...
17/08/2026

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: The faculty offices of the Department of Philosophy are closed on August 17, 2026.

Faculty members are participating in today's CSSP Faculty Conference 2026, at the Atencio Libunao Hall, UP Diliman, for the continuing efforts and conviction of the Department in serving stakeholders in areas of teaching, research, and extension.

For inquiries, you may reach us through our email, [email protected].

For graduate program matters, you may reach us through [email protected].

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To further strengthen the Philosophy for Children program of the UP Department of Philosophy, Atty. Renato Manaloto and ...
10/08/2026

To further strengthen the Philosophy for Children program of the UP Department of Philosophy, Atty. Renato Manaloto and Dr. Lumberto Mendoza attended the 2026 IAPC (Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children) Residential Summer Course in Philosophy for Children at Mendham, New Jersey. We would like to acknowledge Prof. Maughn Gregory for sharing this story.

"The 2026 IAPC Residential Summer Course in Philosophy for Children at Mendham, NJ was an amazing experience, with participants from Austria, Japan, New York, Pennsylvania, The Philippines, and Turkey. We spent 8 days philosophizing together, theorizing our practice, and writing original philosophical stories and story exercises (with a few visits from the house bat)!"

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๐€๐ƒ๐•๐ˆ๐’๐Ž๐‘๐˜: ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐ฏ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐’๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ (๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”-๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•)Kindly see the list below for the courses with availab...
07/08/2026

๐€๐ƒ๐•๐ˆ๐’๐Ž๐‘๐˜: ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐ฏ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐’๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ (๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”-๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•)
Kindly see the list below for the courses with available slots. Students interested in enrolling in any of the courses below may contact the Department of Philosophy or enroll directly via the Waitlisting option in CRS.

๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐”๐๐ƒ๐„๐‘๐†๐‘๐€๐ƒ๐”๐€๐“๐„ ๐’๐“๐”๐ƒ๐„๐๐“๐’
PHILO 198 (Blended Modality)
Theories of Justice
Time and Venue: TTh 2:30 PM -4:00 PM, Conference Room
Prerequisite: Senior Standing

ETHICS 1 (Blended Modality)
Time and Venue: F 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, TBA

ETHICS 1 (Blended Modality)
Time and Venue: F 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Conference Room

๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐Œ๐’ ๐€๐๐ƒ ๐Œ๐€ ๐’๐“๐”๐ƒ๐„๐๐“๐’
BIOETHICS 201 (full online)
Foundations and Approaches to Bioethics
Time: T 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

PHILO 299 (full online)
Research in Philosophy
Time: S 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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