Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Department of History and Philosophy
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

Ph.D. Philosophy, University College Dublin (UCD) – Dublin, Ireland (ongoing)
M.A. Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas (UST) – Manila, Philippines (2016)
A.B. Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas (UST) – Manila, Philippines (2012)

Visiting Ph.D. Student
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center – New York, USA (2022)
Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) – Berlin, Germany (2022)

Research Interests

ORCID 0000-0002-1982-8815

Social Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Critical Theory, Epistemic Injustice / Oppression, Feminist Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Asian Philosophy

Academic Organizations

Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) UCD Chapter
Women Doing Philosophy (WDP) group
Transnational Humanities PhD (TNH-PhD) Network

Extension Services

Local Sources of Philosophizing (UP Baguio, 27 May 2022)

Editor-in-Chief for Perspectives: UCD Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy (UCD, March 2021-March 2022)

Abot Tanaw: Philosophy Postgraduate Applications Workshop (WDP, 26 June 2021)

Recent Lectures:

“Philosophy, the Philosophical Institution, and Epistemic Paralysis”, 6th Beyond the Ghetto Webinar: ‘Tremulous Speech: Other-ed and Silenced Subjects Talking Back to Philosophy’ (WDP, 28 August 2021) and 7th Thomasian Philosophers Reunion Convention (UST, 11 February 2022)

“Truth, Education, Subjectivity: Alain Badiou and the Contemporary World Crisis”, (Birmingham City University, 23 June 2021)

Publications

“A Critical Theory of Epistemic Injustice”, Perspectives: UCD Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, Vol 9, Special Issue: Social Philosophy (Winter 2021), pp 281-301.
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“Epistemic Injustice, Epistemic Paralysis, and Epistemic Resistance: A (Feminist) Liberatory Approach to Epistemology”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol 14, No 1 (June 2020), pp 28-44. 
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“The Naturalized and Dialectical Ontologies of Nietzsche and Nishida”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol 13, No 2 (December 2019), pp 113-130.
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“The Event Divides into Two, or the Parallax of Change: Badiou, Žižek, Bosteels, and Johnston”, International Journal of Žižek Studies, Vol 12, No 3 (2018), pp 1-25.

“Ontology or Ethics?: The Case of Martin Heidegger and Watusji Tetsuro”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol 10, No 1 (June 2016), pp 163-191.

“Thinking in the End Times, From Logic to Anthropology: Philosophy in the Social Sciences.” In Social Science Teaching, Research and Practice: Consolidating Lessons and Charting Directions, Conference Papers, Volume 1. Edited by Lorelei Mendoza. Philippines: Cordillera Studies Center, 2016. pp 89-106.

“The World as ‘Is’ and the World as ‘Ought’: Contemporary Philosophy and the Crisis of Subjectivity”, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol 22, No 2 (Fall 2015), pp 68-79. 

“The Triumph of Finitude After Hegel and the (Re)turn of a Philosophy of the Infinite through Badiou”, Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture, Vol 19, No. 2 & 3 (2015), pp 1-43.

“The Narrative’s Creative and Ethical Mediation: A Refigured Self, A Refigured World”, Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol 8, No 2 (December 2014), pp 66-76.
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“An Inquiry into the Historical Development of Philosophy in Japan”, Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture, Vol 17, No 2 (2013), pp 27-59.