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Ingrid Mae De Jesus uses she/they pronouns.

They graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines – Diliman, College of Social Science and Philosophy (CSSP) in 2019 with a baccalaureate degree in Philosophy. She specializes in the study of Ancient Philosophy, Comparative/Asian Philosophy, and Philosophy in Media and Pop-culture.  Other fields of interest include Feminist Studies, and Korean Studies.

At present Mx. De Jesus is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at UP Diliman, mainly handling General Education courses (Philosophy 1: Philosophical Analysis and Philosophy 10: Approaches to Philosophy) in line with UP CSSP’s mandate as a service college.

They are currently pursuing their master’s degree in philosophy at UP Diliman.

Director, Office of Field Activities (OFA) Diliman

Following the University of the Philippines (UP) tradition of honor and excellence, Assistant Professor Arlyn P. Macapinlac has been dutifully serving the University in various capacities for almost three decades now. Within these years, she actively involved herself in teaching, administration, research, and extension services. As a new addition to her series of administrative roles, she currently serves as the Director of the Office of Field Activities (OFA) Diliman.

In 1993, Asst. Prof. Macapinlac began teaching philosophy and communication courses as an instructor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), where she later became an Assistant Professor. She was also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee that ushered the institution of the BA Philosophy program of UPLB in 1997. Her teaching career was further enriched when she started teaching as an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the UP Open University in 2009. To date, she is serving as an Assistant Professor at the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Philosophy.

Alongside teaching, Dir. Macapinlac has also held a number of administrative positions. She was the head of the Philosophy Division in the Department of Humanities, UPLB for more than five years. A year after she started teaching at UPD in 2012, she served as Assistant College Secretary in the College of Social Science and Philosophy (CSSP). In 2016, she became the National Service Training Program (NSTP) Coordinator of CSSPUPD. A year later, she was appointed as the Director of NSTP Diliman, where she served for 3 years.

Since 1994, Prof. Macapinlac has been actively involved in extension activities. She was a member of the UPLB Formal Environmental Education (UPLB-FEED) Team that conducted monitoring activities and training workshops for environmental education and biodiversity conservation for selected elementary, high school, and college teachers in Rizal, Laguna, Mindoro Occidental, Mindoro Oriental, Polillo Island, Samar, and Cebu. In UPD, she was tapped as a trainer for Etika in CHED Trainors’ Training for the Teaching of the General Education Core Courses in 2017. During her term as NSTP Director, she was the project leader of an Extension Grant on NSRC First Responders Training and three NSTP Academic Program Improvement (API) projects. In the Department of Philosophy, she was the co-project leader of an Extension Grant on Teacher-Training on Teaching the ‘Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person’ for Senior High School in Nueva Ecija. She also served as the project leader of the Source of Solutions Grant on “Designing the Communication Campaign for the Increased Awareness of the National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) and Its Mandate at the University of the Philippines Diliman.”

After years of working with the UPLB-FEED Team, NSTP, and CSSP, Asst. Prof.Macapinlac has gained significant experience in conducting field activities. Through her leadership, OFA Diliman is now moving towards refining the policies and guidelines for AFA, as well as improving and streamlining the processes of the relatively new office, to be of better service to the UP Diliman community.

He is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Before getting his tenure in UP Diliman, he had an extensive experience in teaching various ethics and philosophy courses at UP Manila (2005-2008) and UP Los Banos (2002-2003). He took his PhD in Philosophy in Norway at the University of Bergen and his MA and BA Philosophy degrees at UP Diliman. Prior to his studies abroad, he was able to secure several grants for international paper presentations. Two of them came from the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED). His various engagements from 2011-2015 included being: a CHED Technical Reviewer on Philosophy, a trainer for Ayala Foundation’s Center of Excellence in Public Education, a resource person in a couple of UNESCO World Philosophy Day Celebrations, and a training consultant on various critical thinking skills program for public schools transitioning to the K-12 program. His PhD Research in the University of Bergen focused on an exegetical debate on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later work Philosophical Investigations. That work involved conflicting interpretations on what it means to do philosophy as it uses language to overcome the limits of human thought. He discovered that this approach involves a return to a form of Socratic dialogue where the concern for logic becomes interconnected with ethics. Now that he has resumed his academic duties in UP Diliman, he is engaged in various projects and activities that relate to context sensitivity in ethics and logical reasoning. This includes membership in research ethics committees, writing a module on informed consent, teaching graduate seminars on philosophy of education and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, researching on the ethics of mindfulness and vegetarianism, and investigating the nature of philosophical discussions in an online setting.