Jove Jim S. Aguas​

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Jove Jim S. Aguas is a Professor of Philosophy. He is the Executive Governor of the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society, Editor-in-Chief of Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, and currently the Secretary-General of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines (USAPP). He is a faculty member of the Philosophy Department, Faculty of Philosophy, and Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas; research fellow of UST Center for Research in Theology, Religious Studies, and Ethics. He authored several articles and books, notable are Person, Action, and Love: The Philosophical Thoughts of John Paul II/ Karol Wojtyla (2014) and The Good and Happy Life: An Introduction to Ethical Systems (2019), UST Publishing House. His recent publication is “A Critical Look at Religious Diversity and Responding to its Challenges” in Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia, published by Springer in 2023. He delivered the Annual Karol Wojtyla Memorial Lectures at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, in 2023, and presented papers at the International Conference on Persons in Berlin in 2024, the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy Conference in Rome, and the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome in 2024. He was the recipient of the Dangal ng UST as Best Professor in 2010 and 2014 and Best Researcher in 2015. He was also honored with the Dangal ng UST Hall of Fame Award in 2016 and the Lifetime Service Award by the Philippine Dominican Center for Institutional Studies in 2018.